Applied Data Mining

CHAPTER 12

Social Tagging Systems

In this chapter, we present the literature review on works on tag-based

systems. First, we introduce the background of this chapter. The purpose of

literature review is to gain insight in research that has been done already;

in turn this process enables us to identify useful ideas, unsolved issues and

shortcomings in the current methods.

Accordingly, this chapter is structured as follows: in Section 12.1 we

explore the literature on the basic concept of data mining and information

retrieval which links this chapter to the whole book; in Section 12.2

the related work in recommender systems in details, we review ...