Bridging the Gap between the Social and Semantic Web: Extracting domain-specific ontology from folksonomy

Folksonomies have become very popular as means to organize large sets of resources shared over the Social Web. The bottom-up nature of folksonomies has proved to be an interesting alternative to the current effort at semantic web ontologies since folksonomies provide a rich terminology generated by...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Alruqimi, Noura Aknin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131915781730229X
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description Folksonomies have become very popular as means to organize large sets of resources shared over the Social Web. The bottom-up nature of folksonomies has proved to be an interesting alternative to the current effort at semantic web ontologies since folksonomies provide a rich terminology generated by large user-communities. Besides, ontologies extracted from folksonomies can represent the intelligence collective of social communities. Such ontologies also represent a core element of a new feature of the Web, the Internet of Things. Many research studies have captured semantics in folksonomies, some of which have developed ontologies from folksonomy. However, the formal specific-domain ontology consisting of domain-dependent relations has not been researched yet. This paper introduces an algorithm for deriving a domain-specific ontology from folksonomy tags. The proposed algorithm starts by collecting a domain-specific terminology; next, discovering a pre-defined set of conceptual relationships among the domain terminologies. The evaluation of the algorithm, using a dataset extracted from BibSonomy, demonstrated that the algorithm could effectively learn domain ontologies consisting of domain concepts linked by meaningful and high accurate relationships. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can help reduce common issues related to tag ambiguity and synonymous tags.
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spelling doaj.art-97e4fe53c50d4b88829d98fdc7f85f8e2022-12-22T00:57:13ZengElsevierJournal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences1319-15782019-01-013111521Bridging the Gap between the Social and Semantic Web: Extracting domain-specific ontology from folksonomyMohammed Alruqimi0Noura Aknin1Corresponding author.; Information Technology and Modeling Systems Research Unit, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, MoroccoInformation Technology and Modeling Systems Research Unit, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, MoroccoFolksonomies have become very popular as means to organize large sets of resources shared over the Social Web. The bottom-up nature of folksonomies has proved to be an interesting alternative to the current effort at semantic web ontologies since folksonomies provide a rich terminology generated by large user-communities. Besides, ontologies extracted from folksonomies can represent the intelligence collective of social communities. Such ontologies also represent a core element of a new feature of the Web, the Internet of Things. Many research studies have captured semantics in folksonomies, some of which have developed ontologies from folksonomy. However, the formal specific-domain ontology consisting of domain-dependent relations has not been researched yet. This paper introduces an algorithm for deriving a domain-specific ontology from folksonomy tags. The proposed algorithm starts by collecting a domain-specific terminology; next, discovering a pre-defined set of conceptual relationships among the domain terminologies. The evaluation of the algorithm, using a dataset extracted from BibSonomy, demonstrated that the algorithm could effectively learn domain ontologies consisting of domain concepts linked by meaningful and high accurate relationships. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can help reduce common issues related to tag ambiguity and synonymous tags.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131915781730229X
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title_fullStr Bridging the Gap between the Social and Semantic Web: Extracting domain-specific ontology from folksonomy
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title_short Bridging the Gap between the Social and Semantic Web: Extracting domain-specific ontology from folksonomy
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