Social Software and Semantic Web

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

• Semantic Search

  • SeQuEx (SeQuEx - Semantic Query Expansion)

• 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 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)
  • Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies (Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies)
  • 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)

• Folksonomies

  • 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 Annotations

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

• Semantic Filesystems

  • 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)

• 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
• Installing JSPWiki and Tomcat, a guide for JSPWiki developers
• 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.

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.