Faceted Semantic Search for Personalized Social Search

In this paper is analyzed the prototyping of a faceted semantic search for personalized social search using the “joint meaning” as procedure to deal with vagueness on ontological indeterminacy in a community environment representing an evolution of the actual social networks like Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, Twitter, VirgilioPeople, ... The intent of this work is to discuss how the most common features on the faceted semantic search can support the users researches in a “collaborative” environment defined by folksonomies. A solution for the contextaware personalized search is based on “joint meaning” understood as a joint construal of the creators of the contents and the user of the contents using the faced taxonomy with the Semantic Web. A proof-of concept prototype allows showing that the proposed methodological approach can also easily be applied to existing presentation components, built with different languages and/or component technologies.