Towards a multilingual semantic folksonomy.
Murad Magableh, Antonio Cau, Hussein Zedan, Martin P. Ward · 2010
Abstract. The content of collaborative tagging systems (so-called folksonomies) is generated, consumed, and annotated by the end users. Users annotate and categorise their data using free-keywords, so-called tags. Consequently, several linguistic problems come to the surface in folksonomies such as; synonyms, polysemy, multilinguality, and others which produce ambiguous and inconsistent classification of data. Therefore, relevant results are not retrieved in the user’s query. In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to enhance the “social vocabulary ” presented in folksonomies with the “controlled vocabulary ” presented in Semantic Web ontologies. Therefore, our proposed approach uses the online WordNet lexical ontology in addition to the EuroWordNet multilingual lexical resource. Our approach tries to employ the ontological relations presented in WordNet in the folksonomy, it focuses on the problems of synonyms, tag relations, and multilinguality.