Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts Export

@inproceedings{Laniado2007ontology, abstract = {As the volume of information in the read-write Web increases rapidly, folksonomies are becoming a widely used tool to organize and categorize resources in a bottom up, flat and inclusive way. However, due to their very structure, they show some drawbacks; in particular the lack of hierarchy bears some limitations in the possibilities of searching and browsing. In this paper we investigate a new approach, based on the idea of integrating an ontology in the navigation interface of a folksonomy, and we describe an application that filters del.icio.us keywords through the WordNet hierarchy of concepts, to enrich the possibilities of navigation.}, author = {Laniado, David and Eynard, Davide and Colombetti, Marco}, booktitle = {Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop}, citeulike-article-id = {4197016}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27f7ac73677841b4580461d408e83495a/wnpxrz}, keywords = {concept, folksonomy, hierarchy, wordnet}, pages = {192--201}, posted-at = {2009-03-20 07:53:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts}, url = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27f7ac73677841b4580461d408e83495a/wnpxrz}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - Laniado2007ontology L3 - citeulike-article-id:4197016 N2 - As the volume of information in the read-write Web increases rapidly, folksonomies are becoming a widely used tool to organize and categorize resources in a bottom up, flat and inclusive way. However, due to their very structure, they show some drawbacks; in particular the lack of hierarchy bears some limitations in the possibilities of searching and browsing. In this paper we investigate a new approach, based on the idea of integrating an ontology in the navigation interface of a folksonomy, and we describe an application that filters del.icio.us keywords through the WordNet hierarchy of concepts, to enrich the possibilities of navigation. EP - 201 TI - Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts T2 - Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop SP - 192 KW - concept KW - folksonomy KW - hierarchy KW - wordnet AU - Laniado, David AU - Eynard, Davide AU - Colombetti, Marco PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27f7ac73677841b4580461d408e83495a/wnpxrz ER -