Using social media for ontology enrichment

  • Authors:
  • Paola Monachesi;Thomas Markus

  • Affiliations:
  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In order to support informal learning, we complement the formal knowledge represented by ontologies developed by domain experts with the informal knowledge emerging from social tagging. To this end, we have developed an ontology enrichment pipeline that can automatically enrich a domain ontology using: data extracted by a crawler from social media applications, similarity measures, the DBpedia knowledge base, a disambiguation algorithm and several heuristics. The main goal is to provide dynamic and personalized domain ontologies that include the knowledge of the community of users.