Ontology learning from folksonomies.

Chen, Wenhao.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-70).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Ontologies and Folksonomies --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.3Chapter 1.2.1 --- Semantics in Folksonomies --- p.3Chapter 1.2.2 --- Ontologies with basic level concepts --- p.5Chapter 1.2.3 --- Context and Context Effect --- p.6Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.6Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.8Chapter 2 --- Background Study --- p.10Chapter 2.1 --- Semantic Web --- p.10Chapter 2.2 --- Ontology --- p.12Chapter 2.3 --- Folksonomy --- p.14Chapter 2.4 --- Cognitive Psychology --- p.17Chapter 2.4.1 --- Category (Concept) --- p.17Chapter 2.4.2 --- Basic Level Categories (Concepts) --- p.17Chapter 2.4.3 --- Context and Context Effect --- p.20Chapter 2.5 --- F1 Evaluation Metric --- p.21Chapter 2.6 --- State of the Art --- p.23Chapter 2.6.1 --- Ontology Learning --- p.23Chapter 2.6.2 --- Semantics in Folksonomy --- p.26Chapter 3 --- Ontology Learning from Folksonomies --- p.28Chapter 3.1 --- Generating Ontologies with Basic Level Concepts from Folksonomies --- p.29Chapter 3.1.1 --- Modeling Instances and Concepts in Folksonomies --- p.29Chapter 3.1.2 --- The Metric of Basic Level Categories (Concepts) --- p.30Chapter 3.1.3 --- Basic Level Concepts Detection Algorithm --- p.31Chapter 3.1.4 --- Ontology Generation Algorithm --- p.34Chapter 3.2 --- Evaluation --- p.35Chapter 3.2.1 --- Data Set and Experiment Setup --- p.35Chapter 3.2.2 --- Quantitative Analysis --- p.36Chapter 3.2.3 --- Qualitative Analysis --- p.39Chapter 4 --- Context Effect on Ontology Learning from Folksonomies --- p.43Chapter 4.1 --- Context-aware Basic Level Concepts Detection --- p.44Chapter 4.1.1 --- Modeling Context in Folksonomies --- p.44Chapter 4.1.2 --- Context Effect on Category Utility --- p.45Chapter 4.1.3 --- Context-aware Basic Level Concepts Detection Algorithm --- p.46Chapter 4.2 --- Evaluation --- p.47Chapter 4.2.1 --- Data Set and Experiment Setup --- p.47Chapter 4.2.2 --- Result Analysis --- p.49Chapter 5 --- Potential Applications --- p.54Chapter 5.1 --- Categorization of Web Resources --- p.54Chapter 5.2 --- Applications of Ontologies --- p.55Chapter 6 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.57Chapter 6.1 --- Conclusion --- p.57Chapter 6.2 --- Future Work --- p.59Bibliography --- p.6

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