Bridging Ontologies and Folksonomies to Leverage Knowledge Sharing on the Social Web: a Brief Survey

Freddy Limpens (1) , Fabien Gandon (1) , Michel Buffa (2)

1 Edelweiss - Exchanges, Documents, Extraction, Languages, Web, Ergonomics, Interactions, Semantics, Servers
2 Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis (I3S) / Equipe KEWI

Social tagging systems have recently became very pop- ular as a means to classify large sets of resources shared among on-line communities. However, the folksonomies re- sulting from the use of these systems revealed limitations : tags are ambiguous and their spelling may vary, and folk- sonomies are difficult to exploit in order to retrieve or ex- change information. This article compares the recent at- tempts to overcome these limitations and to support the use of folksonomies with formal languages and ontologies from the Semantic Web.

Mots clés: folksonomies; ontologies; semantic web; social web

Domaines: Web; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, Michel Buffa. Bridging Ontologies and Folksonomies to Leverage Knowledge Sharing on the Social Web: a Brief Survey. 2008. ⟨hal-00530358⟩