Abstract

Social content collection sites allow regular netizens to create communities of interest and share information at unprecedented scale. As a point of reference, MediaWiki (the wiki that powers Wikipedia) has millions of installations that allow non-programmers to contribute content. Because the content has very little structure, the information cannot be easily aggregated to answer simple questions. In recent years, several approaches have emerged for social knowledge collection, allowing a community of contributors to structure content so that information can be aggregated to answer reasonably interesting albeit simple factual queries. This chapter gives an overview of existing social knowledge collection research, ranging from intelligent interfaces for collection of semi-structured repositories of common knowledge, semantic wikis for organizing community resources, and collaborative ontology editors to …

Date

2013

Authors

Yolanda Gil

Book

Handbook of human computation

Pages

285-296

Publisher

Springer New York