TagPlus: A Retrieval System using Synonym Tag in Folksonomy

Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the Web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs, videos and other content. In ubiquitous computing environment, users access data through various kinds of mobile terminals. Therefore users want more accurate materials because of expensive communication cost or the useless results due to abuse of tags. In this paper, we first describe current limitation of tagging services. We then describe the system (TagPlus) we implemented to minimize ambiguity due to no synonym control. Finally, we give experimental results.