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Capturing the semiotic relationship between terms

Capturing the semiotic relationship between terms
Capturing the semiotic relationship between terms
Tags describing objects on the web are often treated as facts about a resource, whereas it is quite possible that they represent more subjective observations. Existing methods of term expansion expand terms based on dictionary definitions or statistical information on term occurrence. Here we propose the use of a thematic model for term expansion based on semiotic relationships between terms, this has been shown to improve a system's thematic understanding of content and tags and to tease out the more subjective implications of those tags. Such a system relies on a thematic model that must be made by hand. In this article we explore a method to capture a semiotic understanding of particular terms using a rule-based guide to authoring a thematic model. Experimentation shows that it is possible to capture valid definitions that can be used for semiotic term expansion but that the guide itself may not be sufficient to support this on a large scale. We argue that whilst the formation of super definitions will mitigate some of these problems, the development of an authoring support tool may be necessary to solve others.
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Hargood, Charlie
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Millard, David
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Weal, Mark
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Hargood, Charlie
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Millard, David
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Hargood, Charlie, Millard, David and Weal, Mark (2010) Capturing the semiotic relationship between terms. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 16, 71-84.

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Tags describing objects on the web are often treated as facts about a resource, whereas it is quite possible that they represent more subjective observations. Existing methods of term expansion expand terms based on dictionary definitions or statistical information on term occurrence. Here we propose the use of a thematic model for term expansion based on semiotic relationships between terms, this has been shown to improve a system's thematic understanding of content and tags and to tease out the more subjective implications of those tags. Such a system relies on a thematic model that must be made by hand. In this article we explore a method to capture a semiotic understanding of particular terms using a rule-based guide to authoring a thematic model. Experimentation shows that it is possible to capture valid definitions that can be used for semiotic term expansion but that the guide itself may not be sufficient to support this on a large scale. We argue that whilst the formation of super definitions will mitigate some of these problems, the development of an authoring support tool may be necessary to solve others.

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Published date: April 2010
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 271492
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271492
PURE UUID: e33313df-8420-4a4d-af7f-b82a7bc67b3e
ORCID for David Millard: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-2710
ORCID for Mark Weal: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-8786

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Date deposited: 19 Aug 2010 13:13
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:59

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Author: Charlie Hargood
Author: David Millard ORCID iD
Author: Mark Weal ORCID iD

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