Aplicações de Modelos Semânticos em Redes Sociais

Abstract

Until recently, the handling of large amounts of information was a task for specialists, is now a need for people from all areas, in their professional and in the tasks of everyday life. The quality in information retrieval is crucial in many professions, and improvement of systems can have a major impact, especially when it comes to heterogeneous collections of documents. The research on the Web has been an excellent field for information retrieval and massive automatic indexing on a large scale. This research proposes a general study on Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Social Networks and Ontologies, its applications, languages and methodologies, with the main purpose of creating of an Social Networks Ontology, in order to see how the social networks can be enhanced through the Semantic Web, and see how in the future the Semantic Web and Social Networks will be integrated. The big challenge is to mold this field in a manner to facilitate the development of applications for it, using technologies and tools of the Semantic Web. This work was also intended to systematize the study of Social Networks, Web 2.0, Semantic Web and Ontologies in order to serve as a basis and reference for future studies