| Authors: |
Xian Wu
and Lei Zhang
and Yong Yu
|
| URL: |
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1135777.1135839 |
| Description: |
Exploring social annotations for the semantic web |
| Tags: |
annotation
imported
semanticweb
social
|
| Abstract: |
In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly defined formal ontologies. This kind of formal annotation is usually done manually or semi-automatically. In this paper, we explore a complement approach that focuses on the "social annotations of the web" which are annotations manually made by normal web users without a pre-defined formal ontology. Compared to the formal annotations, although social annotations are coarse-grained, informal and vague, they are also more accessible to more people and better reflect the web resources' meaning from the users' point of views during their actual usage of the web resources. Using a social bookmark service as an example, we show how emergent semantics [2] can be statistically derived from the social annotations. Furthermore, we apply the derived emergent semantics to discover and search shared web bookmarks. The initial evaluation on our implementation shows that our method can effectively discover semantically related web bookmarks that current social bookmark service can not discover easily. |
@inproceedings{1135839,
title = {Exploring social annotations for the semantic web},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Xian Wu and Lei Zhang and Yong Yu},
booktitle = {WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web},
pages = {417--426},
publisher = {ACM Press},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1135777.1135839},
year = {2006},
description = {Exploring social annotations for the semantic web},
abstract = {In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly defined formal ontologies. This kind of formal annotation is usually done manually or semi-automatically. In this paper, we explore a complement approach that focuses on the "social annotations of the web" which are annotations manually made by normal web users without a pre-defined formal ontology. Compared to the formal annotations, although social annotations are coarse-grained, informal and vague, they are also more accessible to more people and better reflect the web resources' meaning from the users' point of views during their actual usage of the web resources. Using a social bookmark service as an example, we show how emergent semantics [2] can be statistically derived from the social annotations. Furthermore, we apply the derived emergent semantics to discover and search shared web bookmarks. The initial evaluation on our implementation shows that our method can effectively discover semantically related web bookmarks that current social bookmark service can not discover easily.},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1135777.1135839}, isbn = {1-59593-323-9}, location = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
keywords = {annotation imported semanticweb social }
}
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