Connectivity inferences over the web for the analysis of semantic networks. (16th January 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bera, Roderic; Claramunt, Christophe
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 3:Number 2(2007)
• Page Start: 123
• Page End: 138
• Publication Date: 2007-01-16
• Subjects: semantic web -- social networks -- geographical analysis -- GIS -- geographical information systems -- connectivity inferences -- web GIS; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

The World Wide Web constitutes a large information space and a promising support for the development of data inference, analysis and mining mechanisms. The research presented in this paper introduces a modelling approach that derives a social network and computes some of its emerging properties, from the semantics exhibited from a domain knowledge embedded in a series of web pages. The framework is applied to the research communities related to a series of conferences in a given domain, and the university connections materialised by the researcher trajectories over time. The properties of the social network are analysed using graph-based measures, and a novel geographical dispersion coefficient.