Enrichment and Ranking of the YouTube Tag Space and Integration with the Linked Data Cloud

The increase of personal digital cameras with video functionality and video-enabled camera phones has increased the amount of user-generated videos on the Web. People are spending more and more time viewing online videos as a major source of entertainment and “infotainment”. Social websites allow users to assign shared free-form tags to user-generated multimedia resources, thus generating annotations for objects with a minimum amount of effort. Tagging allows communities to organise their multimedia items into browseable sets, but these tags may be poorly chosen and related tags may be omitted. Current techniques to retrieve, integrate and present this media to users are deficient and could do with improvement. In this paper, we describe a framework for semantic enrichment, ranking and integration of web video tags using Semantic Web technologies. Semantic enrichment of folksonomies can bridge the gap between the uncontrolled and flat structures typically found in user-generated co...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Smitashree Choudhury, John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant
• Keywords: Semantic, Semantic Enrichment, SEMWEB 2009, Tag Space