International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 6, No. 12, 8 Nov. 2014
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An Integrated Approach to Drive Ontological Structure from Folksonomie
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Folksonomies, Collaborative Tagging, Ontologies, Fuzzy Clustering, Similarity Measure
Abstract
Web 2.0 is an evolution toward a more social, interactive and collaborative web, where user is at the center of service in terms of publications and reactions. This transforms the user from his old status as a consumer to a new one as a producer. Folksonomies are one of the technologies of Web 2.0 that permit users to annotate resources on the Web. This is done by allowing users to use any keyword or tag that they find relevant. Although folksonomies require a context-independent and inter-subjective definition of meaning, many researchers have proven the existence of an implicit semantics in these unstructured data. In this paper, we propose an improvement of our previous approach to extract ontological structures from folksonomies. The major contributions of this paper are a Normalized Co-occurrences in Distinct Users (NCDU) similarity measure, and a new algorithm to define context of tags and detect ambiguous ones. We compared our similarity measure to a widely used method for identifying similar tags based on the cosine measure. We also compared the new algorithm with the Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm (FCM) used in our original approach. The evaluation shows promising results and emphasizes the advantage of our approach.
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Zahia Marouf, Sidi Mohamed Benslimane, "An Integrated Approach to Drive Ontological Structure from Folksonomie", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.6, no.12, pp.35-45, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2014.12.05
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