Study on User Behavior and Social Tagging

We studied the electronic communication of knowledge users collaborating on a community and found that their work and interactions were mediated by the use of tag. Drawing on these, we found social tagging is the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords, to annotate and categorize information items (books, pictures, films etc.). Automatic discourse classification according to tag in social information sharing, transfer and knowledge communication provided a higher level of service quality. By investigating user behavior in Douban community, the relationship between social tagging and user behavior was studied. The results showed that, given a set of objects, and a set of tags applied to those objects by users, we can predict whether a given tag could/should be applied to a particular object by user behavior. Index Terms - Tags; Social Networks; Classification; Discourse