Helping online communities to semantically enrich folksonomies

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

This paper presents our approach to collaborative and semi- automated semantic structuring of folksonomies. Tags freely provided by users of online communities are not semanti- cally linked, and this hinders significantly the potentials for browsing and exploring these data. We propose a socio- technical system combining automatic handlings of tags, us- ing state of the art algorithm, and user friendly interfaces designed after a careful analysis of the usage of our target communities. Much like folksonomies, our socio-technical system lets each user maintain his own view while still ben- efiting from others contributions. As a complement to sim- ilar approaches, our approach supports conflicting point of views all along the life-cycle of semantically enriched folk- sonomies.

Mots clés: Folksonomies; Ontologies; Partage de Connaissances; web sémantique; semantic web; social web; web social

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

Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, Michel Buffa. Helping online communities to semantically enrich folksonomies. Web Science 2010, Jun 2010, Raleigh, United States. pp.1-8. ⟨hal-00530364⟩