Statistical Properties of Inter-arrival Times Distribution in Social Tagging Systems
Physics and Society
2012-10-11 v1 Information Retrieval
Social and Information Networks
Abstract
Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users' tagging activity. We show that the statistical properties of inter-arrival times between subsequent tagging events cannot be explained without taking into account correlation in users' behaviors. This shows that social interaction in collaborative tagging communities shapes the evolution of folksonomies. A consensus formation process involving the usage of a small number of tags for a given resources is observed through a numerical and analytical analysis of some well-known folksonomy datasets.
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@article{arxiv.1210.2752,
title = {Statistical Properties of Inter-arrival Times Distribution in Social Tagging Systems},
author = {Andrea Capocci and Andrea Baldassarri and Vito D. P. Servedio and Vittorio Loreto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2752},
year = {2012}
}
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6 pages, 10 figures; Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 2009