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SpotTheLink: A Game-Based Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies

SpotTheLink: A Game-Based Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies

Stefan Thaler, Elena Simperl, Katharina Siorpaes, Stephan Wölger
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466608948|ISBN10: 1466608943|EISBN13: 9781466608955
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0894-8.ch003
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Thaler, Stefan, et al. "SpotTheLink: A Game-Based Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies." Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks, and Knowledge Resources, edited by Stefan Brüggemann and Claudia d’Amato, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 40-63. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0894-8.ch003

APA

Thaler, S., Simperl, E., Siorpaes, K., & Wölger, S. (2012). SpotTheLink: A Game-Based Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies. In S. Brüggemann & C. d’Amato (Eds.), Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks, and Knowledge Resources (pp. 40-63). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0894-8.ch003

Chicago

Thaler, Stefan, et al. "SpotTheLink: A Game-Based Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies." In Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks, and Knowledge Resources, edited by Stefan Brüggemann and Claudia d’Amato, 40-63. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0894-8.ch003

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Abstract

A multitude of approaches to match, merge, and integrate ontologies, and more recently, to interlink RDF data sets, have been proposed over the past years, making ontology alignment one of the most active and at the same time mature area of research and development in semantic technologies. While advances in the area cannot be contested, it is equally true that full automation of the ontology-alignment process is far from being feasible; human input is often indispensable for the bootstrapping of the underlying methods, and for the validation of the results. The question of acquiring and leveraging such human input remains largely unaddressed, in particular when it comes to the incentives and motivators that are likely to make users invest their valuable time and effort in alignment tasks such as entity interlinking and schema matching, which can be domain-knowledge-intensive, technical, or both. In this chapter, the authors present SpotTheLink, a game whose purpose addresses this challenge, demonstrating how knowledge-intensive tasks in the area of the Semantic Web can be collaboratively solved by a community of non-experts in an entertaining fashion.

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