Halpin Harry. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web

Springer, 2013. — xvi, 22 p. — (Semantic Web and Beyond). — ISBN: 978-1-4614-1885-6.Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical side which has an impact on industry.
Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web discusses how the largest problem facing the Semantic Web is the problem of identity and reference, and how these are the results of a larger general theory of meaning. This book hypothesizes that statistical semantics can solve these problems, illustrated by case studies ranging from a pioneering study of tagging systems to using the Semantic Web to boost the results of commercial search engines.Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web targets practitioners working in the related fields of the semantic web, search engines, information retrieval, philosophers of language and more. Advanced-level students and researchers focusing on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text or reference book.ScopeNotational Conventions
Architecture of the World Wide Web
The History of the Web
The Terminology of the Web
The Principles of Web Architecture
Conclusions
The Semantic Web
A Brief History of Knowledge Representation
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Information and Non-information Resources
An Ontology of Web Architecture
The Semantic Web: Good Old Fashioned AI Redux?
Theories of Semantics on the Web
The Identity Crisis
Sense and Reference
The Logicist Position and the Descriptivist Theory of Reference
The Direct Reference Position and the Causal Theory of Reference
Sense and Reference on the Web
The Semantics of Tagging
Making Sense of Tagging
Detecting Power Laws in Tags
The Effect of Suggestions on Tagging
Constructing Tag Correlation Graphs
Identifying Tag Vocabularies in Folksonomies Using Community Detection Algorithms
Comparing Tags to Search Keywords
Conclusions
The Semantics of SearchIs There Anything Worth Finding on the Semantic Web?
Information Retrieval for Web Search
System Description
Feedback Evaluation
Pseudo-Feedback
Inference
Deployed Systems
Future Work on Relevance Feedback
The Representational Nexus
Social Semantics
Introducing Social Semantics
Representations as Dynamic Ontology
A Statistical Semantic Web
Towards Collective Intelligence