Title :
Collaborative Indexing and Knowledge Exploration: A Social Learning Model
Author :
Fu, Wai-Tat ; Dong, Wei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
A computational social learning model shows how meaning is constructed, shared, and learned through social tags contributed by Web users as they perform exploratory search.
Keywords :
Internet; indexing; learning (artificial intelligence); search engines; social networking (online); Web users; collaborative indexing; computational social learning model; exploratory search; social tags; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Knowledge representation; Learning systems; Semantics; Social factors; Tagging; cognitive model; collective intelligence; knowledge accommodation; knowledge assimilation; knowledge exploration; semantic imitation; social learning; social tagging;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2010.131
