Authors:
Javier Rincón Borobia
;
Carlos Bobed
;
Angel Luis Garrido
and
Eduardo Mena
Affiliation:
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Keyword(s):
Semantic Web, Information Extraction, Ontologies, Social Network.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Social Networks and Organizational Culture
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
In the last few years, the amount of people moving to the mountains to do several activities such as hiking, climbing or mountaineering, is
steadily increasing. Not surprisingly, this has come along with a raise in the
amount of accidents, which are mainly due to the inexperience of the people, and the lack of information and proper planning. Although one could expect to
find appropriate updated information about this issue on the Internet, most of the information related to mountain activities is stored in personal blogs, or in Web sites that are not exploiting the possibilities that the Semantic Web and the Social Web offer regarding content generation and information processing.
In this paper, we present SIWAM, a semantic framework oriented to share
and evaluate the difficulties of mountain activities. It provides a thematic
social network front-end to enable users to share their descriptions about
their own experiences. Using text mining techniques on these descriptions, it extra
cts relevant facts about these experiences, which are used to evaluate the difficulty of the particular activity. The evaluation is done according to a well-established standard for evaluating the difficulty of mountain activities (MIDE), which is modeled in the system using ontologies.
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