Building a Standpoints Web & Experiments with Library Linked Data

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Building a Standpoints Web & Experiments with Library Linked

Data

Jodi Schneider

WAI meeting, Vrije Universiteit2011-11-28Amsterdam, The Netherlands


W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group

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Libraries connect to other data

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The SemWeb community can help!

Design and test user services based on Linked Data capabilities

Create URIs for the items in library datasets Develop policies for managing Linked Data

vocabularies and their URIs Express library data by re-using or mapping to

existing Linked Data vocabularies

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The library community can help

Preserve Linked Data element sets and value vocabularies

Apply library experience in curation and long-term preservation to Linked Data datasets

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Opportunities for joint work

Standardization Determining & documenting best practices Scaling up

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Are libraries joining the Social Semantic Web?

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+1 to fund this ebook

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Building a Standpoints Web

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Overview

Problem Possible Uses of a Knowledge Representation Concrete Examples Some Current Directions

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Problem

The Web is full of opinions & commentary. A lot of it disagrees. How do we learn from other people, when they

disagree?

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Possible applications

Visualize decision-making Highlight controversies Query opinions and arguments Discuss arguments interactively with a bot Calculate the “best” options

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Visualize

bCisive


Highlight Controversies

Ennals, R., Trushkowsky, B., & Agosta, J. M. (2010). Highlighting Disputed Claims on the Web. In WICOW at WWW 2010.


Query opinions & arguments

Collation & querying across the Web

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Sindice SIOC plugin for WordPress blogs


“ELIZA for arguments”

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Snaith, Lawrence, & Reed, “Mixed initiative argument in public deliberation,” ODET 2010


Transform Debates into Argument Frameworks

(1) Households should pay tax for their garbage.

(4) (1) Paying tax for garbage increases recycling, so households should pay.

(3) (1)Recycling more is good, so people should pay tax for their garbage.

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Arrow: premise

Wyner, van Engers, & Bahreini. From Policy-making Statements to First-order Logic. EGOV 2010


Calculate best options (non-contradictory opinions)

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Wyner, van Engers, & Bahreini. From Policy-making Statements to First-order Logic.

EGOV 2010


Twitter: Standpoint

Difference between cakes and biscuits? When stale, cakes go hard, biscuits go soft. Hence Jaffa Cakes are cakes. (Was official EU ruling).

View: Jaffa Cakes are cakesJustification: official EU ruling; go hard when stale

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Wikipedia: Standpoint

[Delete the article]...hasn't played since 2008. His 66-73 record is far from stellar and, in my opinion, does not merit an article.

View: does not merit an article

Justification: hasn’t played since 2008, record

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Wikipedia: Argumentation

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Long, complicated discussions.

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D. Taraborelli, G.L. Ciampaglia (2010) Beyond Notability. Collective Deliberation on Content Inclusion in Wikipedia. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW '10). http://notabilia.net


Thanks!

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Claims Extraction

Cue words (“Hence Jaffa Cakes are cakes.”) [Marcu]

Rhetorical Structure Theory

Claims Extraction


Important Relationships

Attacks Supports

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Crowdsourcing cataloging improvements

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Reuse book info on the semweb

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Find relationships between papers & researchers

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