Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web

A paper written by Matthias Nickles. It was presented at the ISWC2006.

[edit] Abstract

This paper argues that in order to allow for the comparison and sound assessment of possibly controversial or uncertain information on the web, the semantic web effort requires increased capabilities for the social reasoning about web ontologies and other knowledge contributions. As an approach to this issue, we propose formal means for the logical representation of heterogeneous, possibly inconsistent opinions, and various attitudes towards statements on the web using metamodeling techniques, namely modal description logic. Doing so, we integrate concepts from speech act theory and distributed artificial intelligence with approaches to web semantics, aiming for a social semantics of web content.

The schedule for this talk can be found in the conference programme and a linked list of all talks is provided in the article on ISWC2006 papers. This article has originally been created from the RDF metadata for ISWC 2006.