A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy

Authors:
David Laniado;Davide Eynard;Marco Colombetti
Affiliations:
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We propose a new approach to integrate the navigation interface of a folksonomy adding explicit semantics provided by an ontology. We describe a tool that uses WordNet to build a semantic hierarchy of related tags that helps users find related resources in del.icio.us. In this way it is possible to combine the advantages of the traditional approach to classification with the ones of the collaborative paradigm that is emerging on the Web, dealing with some of the main limitations to which folksonomies are prone.