Using Ontologies for Developing a Search Mechanism in Social Networks
Marzieh Doroudian, Reza Akbari, Marzieh Ahmadzadeh
International Journal of Web Applications, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2014.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/ijwa/fulltext/v6n3/2.pdf
Abstract:
Online social networks are a particular type of virtual community and in recent years they have attracted many people. These networks provide various features for users and allow them to construct a profile and share their information.
Hence searching in usersâ€™ profiles and their information is one of the most common operations in social networks. In this paper, we present a search method based on ontology in which for each profile in social network an ontology is created and then the same is done for userâ€™s query. Using ontology matching techniques these ontologies are matched with each other and the similarities between them are computed. Finally according to similarities, results related to userâ€™s query are found and represented. The experiments show that the presented method is efficient and provide satisfactory results.