Increasing community participation for learning and validating ontologies

Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web

Cheng, D. C. ; Espiritu L. Ph.D.

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-467/paper1.pdf
PID  :  11176

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, it has been recognized that the overhead of developing ontologies by experts to be used for various applications over the web is time consuming and costly. As such, various studies have been performed that aims to take advantage of the social community to assist in building the ontology.Researchers have focused on the integration of various Web 2.0 technologies and paradigms to collaboratively build an ontology. While others have focused on automated discovery of taxonomic and non-taxonomic relationships from unstructured text such as folksonomies to construct an ontology.However, in these researches, the community is still mostlyaware of the fact that they are building an ontology and this can limit the amount of participation of the community in theprocess.In this paper, we suggest the use of an explicit social network toassist in the validation and learning of the ontology beingconstructed in conjunction with existing automated ontology discovery and construction processes. The goal is to tap into thesocial network to allow the stake holders to participate in the construction of the ontology based on how the communityperceives the relationships of the concepts. At the same time,the process is embedded into common tasks that the community partake in so as to hide the complexity and increase theparticipation of the community in the process.