Dagstuhl Seminar

TAGora is sponsoring and participating in an ongoing Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities. The list of participants is available here.

TAGora at ISWC 2008

TAGora will be present at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference with two contributions in the research track:

• Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme, Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems
• Martin Szomszor, Harith Alani, Ivan Cantador, Kieron O’Hara and Nigel Shadbolt, Semantic Modelling of User Interests based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis

TAGora supporting the Discovery Challenge at ECML/PKDD 2008

This year, the Discovery Challenge of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) is about spam detection and tag recommendations in the social bookmarking and publication sharing system BibSonomy. More information can be found at http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/rsdc08/. Interested researchers can download training data, and have to provide predictions on a set of test data.

TAGora at ACM Hypertext 2008

TAGora will be present at ACM Hypertext 2008 with three distinct contributions in the Social Linking track:

• Martin Szomszor, Ivan Cantador and Harith Alani, Correlating User Profiles From Multiple Folksonomies
• Klaas Dellschaft and Steffen Staab, An Epistemic Dynamic Model for Tagging Systems
• Robert Jaeschke, Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme, Logsonomy – Social Information Retrieval with Logdata

We are looking forward to meeting you in Pittsburgh !

TAGora at ECCS07 in Dresden

TAGora will contribute to the European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS07 as follows:

• a talk by Vittorio Loreto at the CRP Forum on Saturday 6th October 2007
• a presentation of the project (poster and introductory talk) at the FET Workshop
• a satellite conference organized by Bettina Hoser and Ciro Cattuto on Social Websites – Complex Dynamics and Structure
• a talk presented by Andrea Baldassarri on
  Emergent Community Structure in Social Tagging Systems
• a talk and a poster presented by Vito D. P. Servedio on Vocabulary Growth in Collaborative Tagging Systems
• a talk by Vittorio Loreto at the satellite conference on Interacting Agents, Complexity and Inter-Disciplinary Applications

We are looking forward to meeting you in Dresden !