Web-Based Knowledge Extraction and the Cognitive Characterization of Cultural Groups
Web-Based Knowledge Extraction and the Cognitive Characterization of Cultural Groups
The advent of Web 2.0 has provided new opportunities for cultural analysts to understand more about the cognitive characteristics of cultural groups. In particular, user-contributed content provides important indications as to the beliefs, attitudes and values of cultural groups, and this is an important focus of attention for those concerned with the development of cognitively-relevant models. In order to support the exploitation of the Web in the context of cultural modeling activities, it is important to deal with both the large-scale nature of the Web and the current dominance of natural language formats. In this paper, we outline an approach to support the exploitation of the Web in the context of cultural modeling activities. The approach begins with the development of qualitative cultural models (which describe the beliefs, concepts and values of cultural groups), and these models are subsequently used to develop an ontology-based information extraction capability (which harvests model-relevant information from online textual resources). We are currently developing a system to support the approach, and the continued development of this system should enable cultural analysts to more fully exploit the Web for the purpose of developing more accurate, detailed and predictively-relevant cognitive models.
information extraction, cultural modeling, semantic web, ontologies, cultural network analysis, culture, world wide web, cultural analysis, knowledge extraction, natural language processing
Penta, Antonio
4bf47cb6-e4df-4b50-b992-0266e1eddbe0
Smart, Paul R
cd8a3dbf-d963-4009-80fb-76ecc93579df
Sieck, Winston R
810cd79e-fc89-400a-b6aa-6f6156dabc48
Shadbolt, Nigel
5c5acdf4-ad42-49b6-81fe-e9db58c2caf7
8 February 2011
Penta, Antonio
4bf47cb6-e4df-4b50-b992-0266e1eddbe0
Smart, Paul R
cd8a3dbf-d963-4009-80fb-76ecc93579df
Sieck, Winston R
810cd79e-fc89-400a-b6aa-6f6156dabc48
Shadbolt, Nigel
5c5acdf4-ad42-49b6-81fe-e9db58c2caf7
Penta, Antonio, Smart, Paul R, Sieck, Winston R and Shadbolt, Nigel
(2011)
Web-Based Knowledge Extraction and the Cognitive Characterization of Cultural Groups.
Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program Focus 2011 Conference (HSCB'11), Chantilly, Virginia, United States.
08 - 10 Feb 2011.
Record type:
Conference or Workshop Item
(Other)
Abstract
The advent of Web 2.0 has provided new opportunities for cultural analysts to understand more about the cognitive characteristics of cultural groups. In particular, user-contributed content provides important indications as to the beliefs, attitudes and values of cultural groups, and this is an important focus of attention for those concerned with the development of cognitively-relevant models. In order to support the exploitation of the Web in the context of cultural modeling activities, it is important to deal with both the large-scale nature of the Web and the current dominance of natural language formats. In this paper, we outline an approach to support the exploitation of the Web in the context of cultural modeling activities. The approach begins with the development of qualitative cultural models (which describe the beliefs, concepts and values of cultural groups), and these models are subsequently used to develop an ontology-based information extraction capability (which harvests model-relevant information from online textual resources). We are currently developing a system to support the approach, and the continued development of this system should enable cultural analysts to more fully exploit the Web for the purpose of developing more accurate, detailed and predictively-relevant cognitive models.
Text
Knowledge_Extraction_and_Cultural_Understandingv3.pdf
- Accepted Manuscript
More information
Published date: 8 February 2011
Additional Information:
Event Dates: 8th - 10th February 2011
Venue - Dates:
Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program Focus 2011 Conference (HSCB'11), Chantilly, Virginia, United States, 2011-02-08 - 2011-02-10
Keywords:
information extraction, cultural modeling, semantic web, ontologies, cultural network analysis, culture, world wide web, cultural analysis, knowledge extraction, natural language processing
Organisations:
Web & Internet Science
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 271836
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271836
PURE UUID: 6d886d0c-baf2-4726-b70b-ce4c6b315fca
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 22 Dec 2010 13:05
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:15
Export record
Contributors
Author:
Antonio Penta
Author:
Paul R Smart
Author:
Winston R Sieck
Author:
Nigel Shadbolt
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics