Using Social Media for Ontology Enrichment [chapter]

Paola Monachesi, Thomas Markus
2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
In order to support informal learning, we complement the formal knowledge represented by ontologies developed by domain experts with the informal knowledge emerging from social tagging. To this end, we have developed an ontology enrichment pipeline that can automatically enrich a domain ontology using: data extracted by a crawler from social media applications, similarity measures, the DBpedia knowledge base, a disambiguation algorithm and several heuristics. The main goal is to provide dynamic
more » ... and personalized domain ontologies that include the knowledge of the community of users.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13489-0_12 fatcat:smsifjccgjdwbgamwd77tlo7oa