Presentation at the 1st World Summit of the Open Knowledge Society, Athens, 24-26 September 2008. Track: Culture & Cultural Heritage – Technology for Culture Management, Management of Tourism, and Entertainment.
Reducing syntactic variations to reduce redundancies and, thus, improve searchability of folksonomies. Pattern matching is applied, which is based on the comparison of a pattern string and a candidate string. Examples for syntactic variations are typographic errors, tags in plural/ singular, and transposition of adjacent characters.