Review of the state of the art: discovering and associating semantics to tags in folksonomies

Andrés García-Silva; Oscar Corcho; Harith Alani; Asunción Gómez-Pérez; Andrés García-Silva; Oscar Corcho; Harith Alani; Asunción Gómez-Pérez

doi:10.1017/S026988891100018X

Abstract: This paper describes and compares the most relevant approaches for associating tags with semantics in order to make explicit the meaning of those tags. We identify a common set of steps that are usually considered across all these approaches and frame our descriptions according to them, providing a unified view of how each approach tackles the different problems that appear during the semantic association process. Furthermore, we provide some recommendations on (a) how and when to use each of the approaches according to the characteristics of the data source, and (b) how to improve results by leveraging the strengths of the different approaches.

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Review of the state of the art: discovering and associating semantics to tags in folksonomies

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Corresponding authors: Andrés García-Silva ; Oscar Corcho ; Harith Alani ; Asunción Gómez-Pérez

Published online: 22 February 2012

Abstract: Abstract: This paper describes and compares the most relevant approaches for associating tags with semantics in order to make explicit the meaning of those tags. We identify a common set of steps that are usually considered across all these approaches and frame our descriptions according to them, providing a unified view of how each approach tackles the different problems that appear during the semantic association process. Furthermore, we provide some recommendations on (a) how and when to use each of the approaches according to the characteristics of the data source, and (b) how to improve results by leveraging the strengths of the different approaches.

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This work is supported by the Spanish Projects GeoBuddies (TSI2007-65677C02) and CENIT España Virtual (ALT0317), and the FPI grant (BES-2008-007622) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. In addition, we want to thank Sofia Angeletou for the valuable information provided.

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Andrés García-Silva, Oscar Corcho, Harith Alani, Asunción Gómez-Pérez. 2012. Review of the state of the art: discovering and associating semantics to tags in folksonomies. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 27: doi: 10.1017/S026988891100018X

Andrés García-Silva, Oscar Corcho, Harith Alani, Asunción Gómez-Pérez. 2012. Review of the state of the art: discovering and associating semantics to tags in folksonomies. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 27: doi: 10.1017/S026988891100018X

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