A Semantic Web of Know-How: Linked Data for Community-Centric Tasks
This addresses the challenge of discovering and integrating community know-how for users needing automated task assistance, though it appears incremental in building on existing Semantic Web concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of unstructured procedural knowledge from web communities by proposing a novel Semantic Web framework to represent it, demonstrating feasibility with an implementation that automatically acquires knowledge for real-world tasks.
This paper proposes a novel framework for representing community know-how on the Semantic Web. Procedural knowledge generated by web communities typically takes the form of natural language instructions or videos and is largely unstructured. The absence of semantic structure impedes the deployment of many useful applications, in particular the ability to discover and integrate know-how automatically. We discuss the characteristics of community know-how and argue that existing knowledge representation frameworks fail to represent it adequately. We present a novel framework for representing the semantic structure of community know-how and demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by providing a concrete implementation which includes a method for automatically acquiring procedural knowledge for real-world tasks.