2008: “Improving search and navigation by combining Ontologies and Social Tags”

 “Improving search and navigation  by combining Ontologies and Social Tags“, Silvia Bindelli,  Claudio Criscione,  Carlo A. Curino,  Mauro L. Drago,  Davide Eynard,  Giorgio Orsi, OTM Workshop:  Ambient Data Integration (ADI) 2008
 
ABSTRACT: 
The Semantic Web has the ambitious goal of enabling complex autonomous applications to reason on a machine-processable version of the World Wide Web. This, however, would require a coordinated effort not easily achievable in practice. On the other hand, spontaneous communities, based on social tagging, recently achieved noticeable consensus and diffusion. 
The goal of the TagOnto system is to bridge between these to realities by automatically mapping (social) tags to more structured domain ontologies, thus, providing assistive, navigational features typical of the Semantic Web. These novel searching and navigational capabilities are complementary to more traditional search engine functionalities. The system, and its intuitive AJAX interface, are released and demonstrated on-line. 
 
 Demo on-line available at: http://kid.dei.polimi.it/tagonto/