Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics

✍ Scribed by Peter Mika

• Book ID: 104099606
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 871 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1570-8268
• DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2006.11.002

✦ Synopsis

In our work the traditional bipartite model of ontologies is extended with the social dimension, leading to a tripartite model of actors, concepts and instances. We demonstrate the application of this representation by showing how community-based semantics emerges from this model through a process of graph transformation. We illustrate ontology emergence by two case studies, an analysis of a large scale folksonomy system and a novel method for the extraction of community-based ontologies from Web pages.