Lifting user generated comments to SIOC
Julien Subercaze, Christophe Gravier, Télécom Saint-étienne, Université Jean Monnet · 2012
Abstract. HTML boilerplate code is used on webpages as presentation directives for a browser to display data to a human end user. For machines, our community has made tremenduous efforts to provide querying endpoints using agreed-upon schemas, protocols, and principles since the avent of the Semantic Web. These data lifting efforts have been some of the primary materials for bootstrapping the Web of data. Data lifting usually involves an original data structure from which the semantic architect has to produce a mapper to RDF vocabularies. Less efforts are made in order to lift data produced by a Web mining process, due to the difficulty to provide an efficient and scalable solution. Nonetheless, the Web of documents is mainly composed of natural language twisted in HTML boilerplate code, and few data schemas can be mapped into RDF. In this paper, we present CommentsLifter, a system that is able to lift SIOC data from user-generated comments in Web 2.0.