Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy

Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy
Short Description:	This project proposes a new approach to integrate the navigation interface of a folksonomy adding explicit semantics provided by an ontology.
Coordinator:
Tutor:	DavideEynard (eynard@elet.polimi.it)
Collaborator:
Students:	DavidLaniado (david.laniado@gmail.com)
Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Folksonomies
Start:	2006
End:	2007-04-20
Status:	Closed
Level:	Ms
Type:	Thesis

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

• Project documentation (italian)
• Presentation slides (italian)
• Presentation slides (english)

Publications related to the project

• 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.