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Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution

Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution
Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution
Distributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud.
Linked Data, DHC, Crowd-sourcing, Co-reference
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Yang, Yang
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Singh, Priyanka
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Yao, Jiadi
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Au Yeung, Ching Man
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Zareian, Amir
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Cai, Zhonglun
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Salvadores, Manuel
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Hall, Wendy
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Yang, Yang
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Yao, Jiadi
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Wang, Xiaowei
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Cai, Zhonglun
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Salvadores, Manuel
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Yang, Yang, Singh, Priyanka, Yao, Jiadi, Au Yeung, Ching Man, Zareian, Amir, Wang, Xiaowei, Cai, Zhonglun, Salvadores, Manuel, Gibbins, Nicholas, Hall, Wendy and Shadbolt, Nigel (2011) Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution. 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS), Volume 6643, , Herakilon, Greece. 29 May - 02 Jun 2011. pp. 32-46 .

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Distributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud.

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Published date: 29 May 2011
Additional Information: Event Dates: 29th May - 2nd June 2011
Venue - Dates: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS), Volume 6643, , Herakilon, Greece, 2011-05-29 - 2011-06-02
Keywords: Linked Data, DHC, Crowd-sourcing, Co-reference
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 272060
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272060
PURE UUID: fdcbbc7e-dd38-4db9-bf05-e0715302afb8
ORCID for Nicholas Gibbins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-9956
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811

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Date deposited: 23 Feb 2011 23:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:00

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Author: Yang Yang
Author: Priyanka Singh
Author: Jiadi Yao
Author: Ching Man Au Yeung
Author: Amir Zareian
Author: Xiaowei Wang
Author: Zhonglun Cai
Author: Manuel Salvadores
Author: Nicholas Gibbins ORCID iD
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD
Author: Nigel Shadbolt

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