A Knowledge Extraction and Management Component to Support Spontaneous Participation - Electronic Participation Access content directly
Conference Papers Year : 2015

A Knowledge Extraction and Management Component to Support Spontaneous Participation

Lukasz Porwol
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1016362
Islam Hassan
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1016363
John Breslin
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 1016365

Abstract

Harnessing spontaneous contributions of citizens on Social Media and networking sites is a major feature of the next generation citizen-led e-Participation paradigm. However, extracting information of interest from Social Media streams is a challenging task and requires support from domain specific language resources such as lexica. This work describes our efforts at developing a Knowledge Extraction and Management component which employs a lexicon for extracting information related to public services in Social Media contents or streams as part of a holistic technology infrastructure for citizen-led e-Participation. Our approach consists of three basic steps – (1) acquisition and refinement of public service catalogues, (2) organization of the public service names into a lexicon based on different semantic similarity measures and (3) development of a dictionary-based Named Entity Recognizer (NER) or “spotter” based on the lexicon. We evaluate the performance of the NER solution supported by contextual information generated by two well-known general-purpose information NER tools (DBpedia Spotlight and Alchemy) on a dataset of tweets. Results show that our strategy to domain specific information extraction from Social Media is effective. We conclude with a scenario on how our approach could be scaled-up to extract other types of information from citizen discussions on Social Media.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
346775_1_En_6_Chapter.pdf (708.68 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-01587630 , version 1 (14-09-2017)

Licence

Attribution

Identifiers

Cite

Lukasz Porwol, Islam Hassan, Adegbojega Ojo, John Breslin. A Knowledge Extraction and Management Component to Support Spontaneous Participation. 7th International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart), Aug 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece. pp.68-80, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_6⟩. ⟨hal-01587630⟩
68 View
75 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More