Semantic Tagging

This research topic belongs to the research area Social Software and Semantic Web.

Projects

Projects on this topic:

• Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia (Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia)
• FolksOnt (A graphical tool for folksonomy-based ontology grounding" or, shortly, FolksOnt)
• Tagonto (Tagonto)
• Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy (Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy)
• Wikipedia Category Map (Wikipedia Category Map)
• Wikipedia Folksonomy (Studying Wikipedia as a Folksonomy)
• Wikipedia Category Graph (Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macrocategories)

Project proposals

Wiki Page:	Mining wikipedia categories
Title:	Wikipedia category map
Description:	Wikipedia articles are organized in a hierarchy of categories, manually assigned by users. This process can be considered a huge effort for the collective categorization of human knowledge; the result is a wide and disordered graph which can provide precious information for a variety of applications (natural language processing, information retrieval, ontology building...). In the project "Wikipedia Category Map" a tool has been developed to extract the graph of Wikipedia categories, to store it in RDF format and to interactively visualize and explore it. Aim of this project is to analyze the resulting graph for the extraction of semantic relationships; for example it is possible to define metrics of distance between topics in the graph, which can be useful for various purposes in information retrieval.
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Start:	7 July 2009
Students:	1 - 2
CFU:	5 - 20
Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Semantic Tagging
Level:	Bachelor of Science, Master of Science
Type:	Course, Thesis

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Wiki Page:	Wikipedia Tripartite Graph
Title:	Wikipedia Tripartite Graph
Description:	When a user edits a Wikipedia page, we can establish a link among her, the page and the categories to which the page belongs. A model to represent this information is a tripartite graph. Aim of this project is to build a tripartite graph from Wikipedia users, pages and categories, and mine the outcome network to extract emergent semantics.
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Start:
Students:	1 - 2
CFU:	20 - 20
Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Social Network Analysis, Semantic Tagging
Level:	Master of Science
Type:	Thesis

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Useful resources

• Writing a Firefox extension, some hints and pointers to tutorials that will help you create an extension for Firefox
• Bibliography, a huge collection of papers on semantics, wikis and folksonomies on bibsonomy

Semantic tagging

• Common Tag
• MOAT project (Meaning Of A Tag)
• Tagpedia

Publications

2008

• Silvia Bindelli, Claudio Criscione, Carlo Curino, Mauro L. Drago, Davide Eynard, and Giorgio Orsi. Improving search and navigation by combining ontologies and social tags. In Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, and Pilar Herrero, editors, OTM Workshops, volume 5333 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 76-85. Springer, 2008.

2007

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop, 192–201, 2007.

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. HT ‘07: Proceedings of the 18th conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 153–154, ACM Press,New York, NY, USA,2007.