User Profile Extraction Based on Social Tagging Case Study: Handicrafts women in emerging countries

Abstract

Social tagging systems are based on assigning keywords freely by users, which promotes resources sharing and organization and improves information retrieval. The tags allocation by users is illustrated particularly in sites sharing photos or videos (Flickr, YouTube). As navigations and clicks, tags can be good indicators of the user's interests. In this paper, we examine the case of handicrafts women in emerging countries where we study the usefulness of social tagging to improve profile extraction. Knowing the profile will then help to improve collaboration and ease contact between handicrafts women. Two types of tagging are considered: User-User tagging and User-Product tagging.