Using spreading activation through ontologies to support personal information management

Akrivi Katifori, Costas Vassilakis, Alan Dix

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Abstract

Recent research in the domain of Personal Information Management has recognized the need for a paradigm shift towards a more activity-oriented system. Ontologies, as semantic networks with a structure not dissimilar to the one used by the human brain for storing long-term knowledge, may be very useful as the basis of such a system. This work proposes the use of spreading activation over ontologies m order to provide to a task-based system and its associated tools with methods to record semantics related to documents and tasks and to support user context inference.

Original languageEnglish
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume323
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 IUI Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces, CSKGOI 2008 - Canary Islands, Spain
Duration: 13 Jan 200813 Jan 2008

Keywords

  • Context inference
  • Personal ontology
  • Spreading activation

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