Analysis of User Tags in Social Music Sites: Implications for Cultural Differences

摘要

With the tremendous popularity of social media sites over Internet, many researchers have started to study users' behavior while the users contribute items to the sites. Among them, tagging behavior is one vital area as the results from studying it can be beneficial to existing collaborative computing applications (e.g., recommender systems). Various metrics have been proposed to evaluate tag patterns, but few studies have dealt with the important cultural dimension associated with the tagging manner. Therefore, in this paper, we have particularly investigated two social music sites, SongTaste and Last.fm, which are respectively popularly used by Chinese and European. Analysis of user tags from them indicates significant differences between the two typical cultural groups in respect of their tag classes, tag agreements, and tag usefulness.