Harvesting Intelligence in Multimedia Social Tagging Systems [chapter]

Eirini Giannakidou, Foteini Kaklidou, Elisavet Chatzilari, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Athena Vakali
2010 Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval  
As more people adopt tagging practices, social tagging systems tend to form rich knowledge repositories that enable the extraction of patterns reflecting the way content semantics is perceived by the web users. This is of particular importance, especially in the case of multimedia content, since the availability of such content in the web is very high and its efficient retrieval using textual annotations or content-based automatically extracted metadata still remains a challenge. It is argued
more » ... at complementing multimedia analysis techniques with knowledge drawn from web social annotations may facilitate multimedia content management. This chapter focuses on analyzing tagging patterns and combining them with content feature extraction methods, generating, thus, intelligence from multimedia social tagging systems. Emphasis is placed on using all available "tracks" of knowledge, that is tag co-occurrence together with semantic relations among tags and low-level features of the content. Towards this direction, a survey on the theoretical background and the adopted practices for analysis of multimedia social content are presented. A case study from Flickr illustrates the efficiency of the proposed approach.
doi:10.1007/978-1-84996-074-8_6 dblp:series/aikp/GiannakidouKCKV10 fatcat:qiutw4si5zaxzkqereebj2vuce