International Business Machines Corporation

Meggan H Todd

Thomas Schaeck

Tolga Oral

Sara Beth Weber

Daniel Rucci

Michael Muller

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for reciprocal tagging of resources in a computer communications network. A method for reciprocal tagging of resources can include specifying a resource in a computing system for tagging and identifying a reciprocal resource to the specified resource and generating a tag for a specified resource, the tag referencing the reciprocal resource and specifying a relationship between the specified resource and the reciprocal resource. The method further can include additionally generating a reciprocal tag for the reciprocal resource, the reciprocal tag referencing the specified resource in the reciprocal tag and indicating a reciprocal relationship between the specified resource and the reciprocal resource. Finally, the method can include storing both tags in a data store of reciprocal tags for subsequent access.

Reciprocal tags in social tagging

Methods, products, apparatus, and systems may identify one or more relevant social communities for one or more questions. Additionally, a user-question affinity value between a user and a question may be determined. In addition, a user-community affinity value between the user and each of a plurality of candidate social communities may be determined. Moreover, a question-community affinity value between the question and each of the plurality of candidate social communities may be determined based on the user-question affinity value and the user-community affinity value. The question-community affinity value determination may involve calculating a running average using the user-question affinity value and the user-community affinity value. The question-community affinity value may identify the one or more relevant social communities from the plurality of candidate social communities.

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Meggan H Todd