Exploring social annotations for the semantic web Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:801422, abstract = {In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly defined formal ontologies. This kind of formal annotation is usually done manually or semi-automatically. In this paper, we explore a complement approach that focuses on the "social annotations of the web" which are annotations manually made by normal web users without a pre-defined formal ontology. Compared to the formal annotations, although social annotations are coarse-grained, informal and vague, they are also more accessible to more people and better reflect the web resources' meaning from the users' point of views during their actual usage of the web resources. Using a social bookmark service as an example, we show how emergent semantics [2] can be statistically derived from the social annotations. Furthermore, we apply the derived emergent semantics to discover and search shared web bookmarks. The initial evaluation on our implementation shows that our method can effectively discover semantically related web bookmarks that current social bookmark service can not discover easily.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Wu, Xian and Zhang, Lei and Yu, Yong}, booktitle = {WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {801422}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1135777.1135839}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135839}, doi = {10.1145/1135777.1135839}, isbn = {1-59593-323-9}, keywords = {semantic-web, social\_navigation}, location = {Edinburgh, Scotland}, pages = {417--426}, posted-at = {2007-09-08 10:26:46}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Exploring social annotations for the semantic web}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135839}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:801422 L3 - citeulike-article-id:801422 N2 - In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly defined formal ontologies. This kind of formal annotation is usually done manually or semi-automatically. In this paper, we explore a complement approach that focuses on the "social annotations of the web" which are annotations manually made by normal web users without a pre-defined formal ontology. Compared to the formal annotations, although social annotations are coarse-grained, informal and vague, they are also more accessible to more people and better reflect the web resources' meaning from the users' point of views during their actual usage of the web resources. Using a social bookmark service as an example, we show how emergent semantics [2] can be statistically derived from the social annotations. Furthermore, we apply the derived emergent semantics to discover and search shared web bookmarks. The initial evaluation on our implementation shows that our method can effectively discover semantically related web bookmarks that current social bookmark service can not discover easily. CY - Edinburgh, Scotland SN - 1-59593-323-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 426 TI - Exploring social annotations for the semantic web PB - ACM T2 - WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 417 KW - semantic-web KW - social_navigation AU - Wu, Xian AU - Zhang, Lei AU - Yu, Yong PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135839 ER -