Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics

  • Authors:
  • Peter Mika

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In our work the traditional bipartite model of ontologies is extended with the social dimension, leading to a tripartite model of actors, concepts and instances. We demonstrate the application of this representation by showing how community-based semantics emerges from this model through a process of graph transformation. We illustrate ontology emergence by two case studies, an analysis of a large scale folksonomy system and a novel method for the extraction of community-based ontologies from Web pages.