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Query Answering in the Semantic Social Web: An Argumentation-Based Approach

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Common sense reasoning; Decision making; Interaction network; Knowledge discovery; Query answering; Semantic Web search

Glossary

Web :

The World Wide Web

Semantic Web :

A collaborative movement that promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web and encourages the inclusion of semantic content in Web pages

Social Network Services (SNSs) :

Online services or sites that facilitate the building of social networks and relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections

Social Web :

A set of social networks and relations that link people through the Web

Semantic Search :

Web search methods that seek to improve search accuracy by understanding the user’s intentions and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the data space

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The amount of information on the Web and the number of its human users have been growing exponentially in recent years. For many people, the Web has started to play a fundamental role as a means of...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Maria Vanina Martinez

  2. Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Sebastian Gottifredi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Martinez, M.V., Gottifredi, S. (2014). Query Answering in the Semantic Social Web: An Argumentation-Based Approach. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_377

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