Retrieval function of social tagging system and its efficiency assessment / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Tag, similar to a keyword and belonging to a non-controlled term, is a marking language, and can be freely marked by its users, thus playing a role in organization of information resources.Social tagging, a tag created by network users and added to the resources they concerned, has become one of the important methods for the network information resources organizing system to organize and mange resources.Suggestions were thus put forward in this paper for improving the information retrieval function of future social tagging system by comparing its 3 functions and assessing its efficiency.