User:DavidLaniado

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

PhD student in the area of Social Software and Semantic Web.

Past tutored projects

• Social Network Analysis

  • Facebook Automatic List Suggestion
  • Friendship Recommendation System based on a Social Network Topological Analysis
  • Mining the Network of Coordination Interactions in Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia Social Network

• Semantic Tagging

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

• Semantic Annotations

  • Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation

• Description Logics

  • OWLIE

• 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

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

Publications

• David Laniado, Riccardo Tasso, Yana Volkovich and Andreas Kaltenbrunner. When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages, ICWSM2011 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, July 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

• David Laniado and Riccardo Tasso. Co-authorship 2.0 - Patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia.

HT2011 - 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, June 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

• David Laniado and Peter Mika. Making sense of Twitter. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010). November 7-11 2010, Shanghai, China.

• Alexandre Monnin, Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon and David Laniado. Speech acts meet tagging : NiceTag ontology. I-SEMANTICS '10: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 1-3 2010, Graz, Austria.

• Alexandre Monnin, Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon and David Laniado. L'ontologie NiceTag : les tags en tant que graphes nommés, Atelier Web Social, 10ième Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (EGC 2010), Hammamet, Tunisia, 2010.

• Freddy Limpens, Alexandre Monnin, David Laniado and Fabien Gandon. Nicetag ontology : tags as named graphs. Proceeding of the 1st International Workshop on Social Networks Interoperability at the 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), 7-9 December 2009, Shanghai, China.

• 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 (SWAP 2007), 18-20 December 2007, Bari, Italy.

• 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, 10-12 September 2007, Manchester, UK.

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