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Abstract

The synonym issue is an inherent barrier in human-computer communication, and it is more challenging in a Web 2.0 application, especially in social tagging applications. In an effort to resolve the issue, the goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a Web 2.0 application as a potential source for synonyms. This study investigates a way of identifying similar tags from a popular collaborative tagging application, Delicious. Specifically, we propose an algorithm (FolkSim) for measuring the similarity of social tags from Delicious. We compared FolkSim to a cosine-based similarity method and observed that the top-ranked tags on the similar list generated by FolkSim tend to be among the best possible similar tags in given choices. Also, the lists appear to be relatively better than the ones created by CosSim. We also observed that tag folksonomy and similar list resemble each other to a certain degree so that it possibly serves as an alternative outcome, especially in case the FolkSim-based list is unavailable or infeasible.

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시멘틱 웹은 현재의 월드와이드웹의 진화된 모습으로 컴퓨터와 인간이 서로 협업할 수 있도록 컴퓨터가 이해할 수 있는 지식데이터베이스인 온톨로지 기술을 활용한다. 그러나, 온톨로지를 활용하여 정보의 의미를 이해하고 처리 가능하도록 데이터의 표현형식이 표준화 되더라도, 각기 다른 개발자가 서로 다른 개념하에 구축한 온톨로지를 기반으로 작성된 데이터는 상호 불일치 문제를 유발할 수 있다. 따라서, 서로 다른 개념 하에 구축된 온톨로지 간에는 상호 서로 다른 온톨로지 간 정렬작업이 필요하다. 서로 다른 온톨로지 개념노드 간 자동화 처리된 의미정렬 시 인간전문가가 참으로 판단한 사실을 거짓으로 잘못 판단하는 문제상황(false negative)에 의해 정렬오류문제가 발생하게 되는데, 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 온톨로지 개념노드 간 의미정렬과정에서 발생하는 false negative 오류를 최소화 할 수 있는 알고리즘을 새롭게 개발, 제시하였다.

Abstract

Semantic web technology is the evolution of current World Wide Web including a machine-understandable knowledge database, ontology, it may be enable machine and people to work together. However, problems arise when we try to communicate with different data, which are annotated by different ontologies created by different people with different concepts. Thus, to communicate between ontologies, it needs to align between heterogeneous ontologies. When it is aligned between concept nodes of heterogeneous ontologies, one of main problems is a misalignment situation caused by false negative of automatic ontology mapping. So, in this paper, we present a new method to minimize the false negative error in the process of aligning concept nodes of different ontology.