Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy
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Part 1: project profile
Project name
Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy
Project short description
This project proposes a new approach to integrate the navigation interface of a folksonomy adding explicit semantics provided by an ontology. A tool has been developed that uses WordNet to build a semantic hierarchy of related tags that helps users find related resources in del.icio.us. In this way it is possible to combine the advantages of the traditional approach to classification with the ones of the collaborative paradigm that is emerging on the Web, dealing with some of the main limitations to which folksonomies are prone.
Dates
- Start date: 2006
- End date: 2007/04/20
People involved
Project head(s)
- Prof. Marco Colombetti
Other Politecnico di Milano people
- Ing. Davide Eynard
Students
- David Laniado – david (dot) laniado (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it
Part 2: project description
D. Laniado, D. Eynard, and M. Colombetti. A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. In HT '07: Proceedings of the 18th conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, pages 153-154, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM Press. [1]
D. Laniado, D. Eynard, and M. Colombetti. Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. In Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop, pages 192—201, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2007. [2]
