Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the
Semantic Web: An Experience Report
Bridging the Gep between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 (SemNet 2007), page 30-43. (2007)Abstract
While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with
a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered
by being agnostic to the relations that exist between these tags.
To overcome this limitation, several methods have been proposed to find
groups of implicitly inter-related tags. We believe that content retrieval
can be further improved by making the relations between tags explicit. In
this paper we propose the semantic enrichment of folksonomy tags with
explicit relations by harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., dynamically selecting
and combining relevant bits of knowledge from online ontologies.
Our experimental results show that, while semantic enrichment needs to
be aware of the particular characteristics of folksonomies and the Semantic
Web, it is beneficial for both.
