{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/modeling-and-analysis-of-tagging-networks-in","title":"Modeling and Analysis of Tagging Networks in Stack Exchange Communities","arxiv_id":"1902.02372","date":"2019-02-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xiang Fu","Shangdi Yu","Austin R. Benson"],"abstract":"Large Question-and-Answer (Q&A) platforms support diverse knowledge curation\non the Web. While researchers have studied user behavior on the platforms in a\nvariety of contexts, there is relatively little insight into important\nby-products of user behavior that also encode knowledge. Here, we analyze and\nmodel the macroscopic structure of tags applied by users to annotate and\ncatalog questions, using a collection of 168 Stack Exchange websites. We find\nstriking similarity in tagging structure across these Stack Exchange\ncommunities, even though each community evolves independently (albeit under\nsimilar guidelines). Using our empirical findings, we develop a simple\ngenerative model that creates random bipartite graphs of tags and questions.\nOur model accounts for the tag frequency distribution but does not explicitly\naccount for co-tagging correlations. Even under these constraints, we\ndemonstrate empirically and theoretically that our model can reproduce a number\nof statistical properties of the co-tagging graph that links tags appearing in\nthe same post.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02372v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.02372v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"modeling-and-analysis-of-tagging-networks-in","repo_url":"https://github.com/yushangdi/stack-exchange-cotagging","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"tag","task_name":"TAG"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}