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University of South Florida

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2009

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Coa Chairs Perspective, Vicki Gregory Oct 2009

Coa Chairs Perspective, Vicki Gregory

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Categorical And Specificity Differences Between User-Supplied Tags And Search Query Terms For Images. An Analysis Of Flickr Tags And Web Image Search Queries, Eunkyung Chung, Jungwon Yoon Sep 2009

Categorical And Specificity Differences Between User-Supplied Tags And Search Query Terms For Images. An Analysis Of Flickr Tags And Web Image Search Queries, Eunkyung Chung, Jungwon Yoon

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Introduction. The purpose of this study is to compare characteristics and features of user-supplied tags and search query terms for images on the Flickr Website in terms of categories of pictorial meanings and level of term specificity.

Method. This study focuses on comparisons between tags and search queries using Shatford's categorization schemes and the level of specificity based on the basic level theory.

Analysis. Frequency distributions and chi-squared analyses were performed on the data. The results of statistical analyses demonstrated that there were significant differences in categories among tags and different stages of search query terms. The …