User:DavidLaniado

David Laniado
E-Mail:	david.laniado@elet.polimi.it
Advisor:	MarcoColombetti
Research Areas:	Social Software and Semantic Web

Tutored projects

• Social Network Analysis

  • Facebook Automatic List Suggestion (Facebook Personal 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)
  • Wikipedia Social Network (Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network)

• Semantic Tagging

  • Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia (Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia Category Map (Wikipedia Category Map)
  • Wikipedia Folksonomy (Studying Wikipedia as a Folksonomy)
  • Wikipedia Category Graph (Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macrocategories)

• Semantic Search

  • Enriching search results with semantic metadata (Enriching search results with semantic metadata)
  • SeQuEx (SeQuEx - Semantic Query Expansion)

• Semantic Wikis

  • GeoOntology (Geographic Ontology for a semantic wiki)
  • SandboxIkeWiki (A sandbox ontology system for the semantic wiki IkeWiki)
  • BinaryTags (Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki)
  • Extending a wiki with semantic templates (Extending a wiki with semantic templates)

Other projects

• Folksonomies

  • Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy (Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy)

• Semantic Annotations

  • A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation

Project proposals

• A firefox extension for semantic annotations (A Firefox extension for semantic annotations)
• Annotation aggregators from social applications (Annotation aggregators from social applications)
• Detecting patterns in ontology usage (Detecting patterns in ontology usage)
• Extending a search engine with semantic information (Extending a search engine with semantic information)
• Facebook automatic list suggestion (Facebook Automatic List Suggestion)
• Mining wikipedia categories (Wikipedia category map)
• Social Network Data Extraction from Online Communities (Social Network Data Extraction From Online Communities)
• Use case design and implementation for semantic annotations (Use case design and implementation for semantic annotation)
• Wikipedia Page Social Network (Wikipedia Page Social Network)
• Wikipedia Tripartite Graph (Wikipedia Tripartite Graph)

Publications

• 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.

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