Social Ontologies as Generalized Nearly Acyclic Directed Graphs: A Quantitative Graph Model of Social Tagging

Alexander Mehler ()
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Alexander Mehler: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 10 in Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks, 2011, pp 259-319 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we introduce a quantitative graph model of social ontologies as exemplified by the category system of Wikipedia. This is done to contrast structure formation in distributed cognition with classification schemes (by example of the DDC and MeSH), formal ontologies (by example of OpenCyc and SUMO), and terminological ontologies (as exemplified by WordNet). Our basic findings are that social ontologies have a characteristic topology that clearly separates them from other types of ontologies. In this context, we introduce the notion of a Zipfian bipartivity to analyze the relationship of categories and categorized units in distributed cognition.

Keywords: Generalized nearly acyclic directed graphs; Quantitative network analysis; Social ontology; Wikipedia; Zipfian bipartivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4904-3_10

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