Effects of tag attributes on document retrieval success: an exploratory study

Abstract

Since the era of web 2.0, tagging has become popular and a lot of studies were done about tagging system. In an attempt to analyze the performance of each tag, the concept of ‘tag quality’ was designed. However, tag quality does not reflect real use of tags. In this study, an experiment was conducted to explore what attributes of tags really determine the performance of tags. The attributes of tags used are tag frequency, tag centrality, tag commonness, tag position. As a result, three attributes except tag frequency did have relationship with the performance of tags.