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Click here for a brief description of the Research Area, taken from the AirLab website.

Projects

You can also find our currently active projects here and the archive of our past projects here

• Social Network Analysis

  • Friendship Recommendation System based on a Social Network Topological Analysis (Friendship Recommendation System based on a Social Network Topological Analysis)
  • Mining the Network of Coordination Interactions in Wikipedia (Mining the Network of Coordination Interactions in Wikipedia)
  • Facebook Automatic List Suggestion (Facebook Personal Network Analysis)
  • Wikipedia Social Network (Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network)

• Semantic Tagging

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

• Semantic Search

  • SeQuEx (SeQuEx - Semantic Query Expansion)

• Semantic Wikis

  • GeoOntology (Geographic Ontology for a semantic wiki)
  • SandboxIkeWiki (A sandbox ontology system for the semantic wiki IkeWiki)
  • SeManTik (Semantic management of attachments inside a wiki engine)
  • Design and development of a semantic wiki engine (Design and development of a semantic wiki engine)
  • BinaryTags (Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki)
  • Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies (Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies)
  • Extending a wiki with semantic templates (Extending a wiki with semantic templates)

• Semantic Annotations

  • A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology (A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology)
  • Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation (Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation)
  • SpeakinAbout (Speakin' About - a tool for semantic annotation of text documents)
  • A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation (A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation)

• Semantic Filesystems

  • TaggyFS (TaggyFS)
  • JOFS (Java Ontology for File Storage)

• Description Logics

  • OWLIE (A Web application for collaborative editing of ontologies)
  • Description Logics Extensions (A fuzzy description logics temporal extension)

Project Proposals

• Mining wikipedia categories (Wikipedia category map)

Useful Resources

• Semantic Web Links, a collection of links for those who want to work with Semantic Web technologies and wikis
• Semantic MediaWiki installation, a guide to install a local version of MediaWiki and its semantic extension
• Persistent Ontologies, a collection of links to material about making ontologies persistent
• 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

List of relevant publications

2008

• Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Exploiting User Gratification for Collaborative Semantic Annotation. Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges.

• 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 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.