The importance of relational thinking in the practice of psycho-social research: ontology, epistemology, methodology and ethics Book Chapter How to cite: Hollway, Wendy (2008). The importance of relational thinking in the practice of psycho-social research: ontology, epistemology, methodology and ethics. In: Clarke, Simon; Hoggett, Paul and Hahn, Herbert eds. Object relations and social relatio...

Social learning network analysis has drawn attention for most researcher on e-learning research domain. This is due to the fact that it has the capability to identify the behavior of student during their social interaction inside e-learning. Normally, the social network analysis (SNA) is treating the students' interaction merely as node and edge with less meaning. This paper focuses on providin...

This paper presents Klout Topics, a lightweight ontology to describe social media users’ topics of interest and expertise. Klout Topics is designed to: be human-readable and consumerfriendly; cover multiple domains of knowledge in depth; and promote data extensibility via knowledge base entities. We discuss why this ontology is well-suited for text labeling and interest modeling applications, a...

The convergence of the semantic web and the social web to the social semantic web leads to new challenges in ontology engineering. As of today ontologies are created by highly specialized ontology engineers. In order to unite "the wisdom of crowds" and ontologies new approaches to ontology creation are necessary to bridge the "ontology gap" and enable novice users to create formalized knowledge...

In this paper, we present an approach for integrating Social Web with Semantic Web by combining the easiness of annotation of resources in the Social Web and the expressiveness of ontologies to describe the resources in the Semantic Web. Our approach combines ontology learning and ontology evolution techniques to provide an integrated Web. Besides, we show how ontology alignment can be used to ...