CommentsLifter: "Lifting User Generated Comments to SIOC"

[Jodi Schneider]

Spotted an ISWC2012 workshop paper that may be of interest:

Lifting User Generated Comments to SIOC 
Julien Subercaze, Christophe Gravier
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-895/paper6.pdf

"HTML boilerplate code is used on webpages as presentation

directives for a browser to display data to a human end user. For ma-

chines, our community has made tremenduous e orts to provide querying

endpoints using agreed-upon schemas, protocols, and principles since the

avent of the Semantic Web. These data lifting e orts have been some of

the primary materials for bootstrapping the Web of data. Data lifting

usually involves an original data structure from which the semantic ar-

chitect has to produce a mapper to RDF vocabularies. Less e orts are

made in order to lift data produced by a Web mining process, due to

the di culty to provide an e cient and scalable solution. Nonetheless,

the Web of documents is mainly composed of natural language twisted

in HTML boilerplate code, and few data schemas can be mapped into

RDF. In this paper, we present CommentsLifter, a system that is able

to lift SIOC data from user-generated comments in Web 2.0."

KECSM-2012: Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media 2012. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012). Boston, USA, November 12, 2012. pages 48-62 in