Rich Interaction Interfaces and Patterns for Semantic Tagging

Tagging was popularized as an easy-to-use mechanism for describing content with a set of user-defined non-hierarchical keywords in order to allow the content to be found by searching or browsing. The traditional tagging, however, has been criticized for its inability to deal with such problems as homonymy (a word having different meanings), synonymy (different words with the same or similar meaning), different lexical forms and spellings. Semantic tagging provides a solution to these problems by allowing users to connect their tags through some meaningful relations and to organize them into hierarchies. However, one of the biggest challenges of semantic tagging is the extra burden that the user has to take in order to define the semantics of tags.

The main goal of this thesis is to develop graphical user interfaces and interaction patterns that allow the user to quickly and easily define the semantics of tags, organize them into a meaningful hierarchy, and use this semantic vocabulary to annotate the content. The scope of this work includes, but is not limited to a literature review in related research areas (social and semantic web, interaction design, and usability), prototyping, usability testing, and implementation of the GUI using the Dojo toolkit.

Die Arbeit kann selbstverständlich in Englisch oder Deutsch verfasst werden.

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