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Katherine Thornton
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 10
Citations - 397
Katherine Thornton is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & World Wide Web. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications receiving 373 citations.
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Conversational tagging in twitter
TL;DR: The micro-meme phenomenon is described and the importance of this new tagging practice for the larger real-time search context is discussed: emergent topics for which a tag is created, used widely for a few days, then disappears.
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Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres
TL;DR: The development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information that provides a framework for improved intellectual access to video games along multiple dimensions is described.
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Tagging Wikipedia: collaboratively creating a category system
TL;DR: This paper qualitatively analyze the early discussions among editors of Wikipedia about the design and creation of its category system, and distill out four styles of collaboration with regard to category systems that apply broadly to social tagging and other folksonomies.
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Some temporal aspects of indexing and classification: toward a metrics for measuring scheme change
TL;DR: The temporal aspects of indexing and classification in information systems are discussed and two constructs along which to craft metrics to measure scheme change are proposed: collocative integrity and semantic gravity.