My paper “The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries” has been accepted for publication and presentation at this year’s IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) which will be held in Sydney, Australia, from December 09 - 12, 2008.

Abstract

In this paper, we study and compare three different but related types of “metadata” about web documents: social annotations provided by readers of web documents, hyperlink anchor text provided by authors of web documents, and search queries of users trying to find web documents. We introduce a large research data set called CABS120k08 which we have created for this study from a variety of information sources such as AOL500k, the Open Directory Project, del.icio.us/Yahoo!, Google and the WWW in general. We use this data set to investigate several characteristics of said metadata including length, novelty, diversity, and similarity and discuss theoretical and practical implications.

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