re-use and re-engineering of the knowledge. However, beside
consistency checking, current ontology engineering tools provide
only basic functionalities for analyzing ontologies. Since
ontologies can be considered as (labeled, directed) graphs, graph
analysis techniques are a suitable answer for this need. Graph
analysis has been performed by sociologists for over 60 years, and
resulted in the vivid research area of Social Network Analysis
(SNA). While social network structures in general currently receive
high attention in the Semantic Web community, there are only very
few SNA applications up to now, and virtually none for analyzing the
structure of ontologies.
We illustrate in this paper the benefits of applying SNA to
ontologies and the Semantic Web, and discuss which research topics
arise on the edge between the two areas. In particular, we discuss
how different notions of centrality describe the core content and
structure of an ontology. From the rather simple notion of degree
centrality over betweenness centrality to the more complex
eigenvector centrality based on Hermitian matrices, we illustrate
the insights these measures provide on two ontologies, which are
different in purpose, scope, and size. ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stumme, Gerd AU - Hotho, Andreas AU - Berendt, Bettina T1 - Semantic Web Mining - State of the Art and Future Directions JO - Journal of Web Semantics PY - 2006/ VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - 124 EP - 143 UR - http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/stumme/papers/2006/stumme2006semantic.pdf DO - KW - 2006 KW - l3s KW - mining KW - myown KW - semantic KW - sota KW - survey KW - web L1 - SN - N1 - N1 - AB - SemanticWeb Mining aims at combining the two fast-developing research areas SemanticWeb andWeb Mining.
This survey analyzes the convergence of trends from both areas: an increasing number of researchers is working on
improving the results ofWeb Mining by exploiting semantic structures in theWeb, and they make use ofWeb Mining
techniques for building the Semantic Web. Last but not least, these techniques can be used for mining the Semantic
Web itself.
The Semantic Web is the second-generation WWW, enriched by machine-processable information which supports
the user in his tasks. Given the enormous size even of today’s Web, it is impossible to manually enrich all of
these resources. Therefore, automated schemes for learning the relevant information are increasingly being used.
Web Mining aims at discovering insights about the meaning of Web resources and their usage. Given the primarily
syntactical nature of the data being mined, the discovery of meaning is impossible based on these data only. Therefore,
formalizations of the semantics of Web sites and navigation behavior are becoming more and more common.
Furthermore, mining the Semantic Web itself is another upcoming application. We argue that the two areas Web
Mining and Semantic Web need each other to fulfill their goals, but that the full potential of this convergence is not
yet realized. This paper gives an overview of where the two areas meet today, and sketches ways of how a closer
integration could be profitable. ER -