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Class-based tag recommendation and user-based evaluation in online audio clip sharing

Title Class-based tag recommendation and user-based evaluation in online audio clip sharing
Publication Type Journal Article
Year of Publication 2014
Authors Font, F. , Serrà J. , & Serra X.
Journal Title Knowledge-Based Systems
Volume 67
Pages 131-142
Journal Date 09/2014
Abstract Online sharing platforms often rely on collaborative tagging systems for annotating content. In this way, users themselves annotate and describe the shared contents using textual labels, commonly called tags. These annotations typically suffer from a number of issues such as tag scarcity or ambiguous labelling. Hence, to minimise some of these issues, tag recommendation systems can be employed to suggest potentially relevant tags during the annotation process. In this work, we present a tag recommendation system and evaluate it in the context of an online platform for audio clip sharing. By exploiting domain-specific knowledge, the system we present is able to classify an audio clip among a number of predefined audio classes and to produce specific tag recommendations for the different classes. We perform an in-depth user-based evaluation of the recommendation method along with two baselines and a former version that we described in previous work. This user-based evaluation is further complemented with a prediction-based evaluation following standard information retrieval methodologies. Results show that the proposed tag recommendation method brings a statistically significant improvement over the previous method and the baselines. In addition, we report a number of findings based on the detailed analysis of user feedback provided during the evaluation process. The considered methods, when applied to real-world collaborative tagging systems, should serve the purpose of consolidating the tagging vocabulary and improving the quality of content annotations.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35179
Final publication https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2014.06.003