Linking Open Descriptions of Social Events (LODSE): A New Ontology for Social Event Classification

Marcelo Rodrigues,Jorge Bernardino,Rodrigo Rocha Silva

doi:10.3390/info9070164

Abstract

The digital era has brought a number of significant changes in the world of communications. Although technological evolution has allowed the creation of new social event platforms to disclose events, it is still difficult to know what is happening around a location. Currently, a large number of social events are created and promoted on social networks. With the massive quantity of information created in these systems, finding an event is challenging because sometimes the data is ambiguous or incomplete. One of the main challenges in social event classification is related to the incompleteness and ambiguity of metadata created by users. This paper presents a new ontology, named LODSE (Linking Open Descriptions of Social Events) based on the LODE (Linking Open Descriptions of Events) ontology to describe the domain model of social events. The aim of this ontology is to create a data model that allows definition of the most important properties to describe a social event and to improve the classification of events. The proposed data model is used in an experimental evaluation to compare both ontologies in social event classification. The experimental evaluation, using a dataset based on real data from a popular social network, demonstrated that the data model based on the LODSE ontology brings several benefits in the classification of events. Using the LODSE ontology, the results show an increment of correctly classified events as well as a gain in execution time, when comparing with the data model based on the LODE ontology.

Highlights

Events are a natural way to show an observable occurrence, such as grouping people, places, times and activities [1]
Using the LODSE ontology, the results show an increment of correctly classified events as well as a gain in execution time, when comparing with the data model based on the linking comparison between descriptions of events (LODE) ontology
With this experimental evaluation we intend to prove a better percentage of correctly classified events and improve the performance, in order to have low memory consumption and faster execution time with the LODSE ontology comparing with the LODE

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Introduction

Events are a natural way to show an observable occurrence, such as grouping people, places, times and activities [1]. They might be considered as observable experiences that are often documented through photos and videos [2]. A large number of social events are created and promoted on social networks. Facebook is the largest social network with 1.79 billion monthly active users [3]. Facebook Event is a powerful tool and it is used to create and promote events but they are usually agglomerated with other types of information and users rarely notice them [4]

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