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Linked data in crowdsourcing purposive social network

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Priyanka Singh and

Nigel ShadboltAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2013

Pages 913 - 918

https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488079

Published: 13 May 2013 Publication History

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Internet is an easy medium for people to collaborate and crowdsourcing is an efficient feature of social web where people with common interest and expertise come together to solve specific problems by collective thinking and create a community. It can also be used to filter out important information from large data, remove spams, and gamification techniques are used to reward the users for their contribution and keep a sustainable environment for the growth of the community. Semantic web technologies can be used to structure the community data so it can be combined, decentralized and be used across platform. Using such tools knowledge can be enhanced and easily discovered and merged together. This paper discusses the concept of a purposive social network where people with similar interest and varied expertise come together, use crowdsourcing technique to solve a common problem and build tools for common purpose. The StackOverflow website is chosen to study the purposive network, different network ties and roles of user is studied. Linked Data is used for name disambiguation of keywords and topics for easier search and discovery of experts in a field and provide useful information that is otherwise unavailable in the website.

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WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2013

1636 pages

ISBN:9781450320382

DOI:10.1145/2487788

General Chairs:
Daniel Schwabe
PUC-Rio - Brazil
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Virgílio Almeida
UFMG - Brazil
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Hartmut Glaser
CGI.br - Brazil
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Labs - Spain & Chile
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Sue Moon
KAIST - South Korea

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Anand DRavichandran S(2015)Investigations into the Goodness of Posts in Q&A Forums—Popularity Versus QualityInformation Systems Design and Intelligent Applications10.1007/978-81-322-2247-7_65(639-647)Online publication date: 21-Jan-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2247-7_65
Anand DVahab F(2015)Predicting Post Importance in Question Answer Forums Based on Topic-Wise User ExpertiseProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology - Volume 895610.1007/978-3-319-14977-6_40(365-376)Online publication date: 5-Feb-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-14977-6_40
Schacht SMaedche A(2014)Project Knowledge Management While Simply Playing! Gaming Mechanics in Project Knowledge Management SystemsGamification in Education and Business10.1007/978-3-319-10208-5_30(593-614)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10208-5_30

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