Building a Semantic Social Network Based on Interpersonal Relationships

Abstract

With the emergence of the Smart phone, people can use Online Social Network Services ubiquitously, leading to a significant increase of the number of participants in online social networks. Under these circumstances, online users will require an intelligent and intuitive social relationship management system such as the ontology-driven browsing method. In this paper, to build a user-centered semantic social network and to represent entities and relationships with ontology to improve retrieval performance of the semantic social network, we will design our ontology extended from FOAF, RELATIONSHIP and propose a new method to compute closeness among friends using resources on social networks. Furthermore, we evaluate our ontology-driven browsing on via implementing a prototype system.