Communities have been viewed as the end product of an assembly process that results in increasing stability through time as progressively better competitors eventually dominate the other species that can emigrate from a regional pool. Previous work has explained species assemblages based on the traits of the successful species. We suggest that the traits of unsuccessful species in the regional ...

This paper reports on our ongoing work regarding opinion mining from Web-based discussion forums in the realm of the Understanding Advertising (UAd) project. Our approach to opinion mining is to first RDFise discussion forums in SIOC, and in a second phase to interlink the so created data with linked datasets such as DBpedia. We are confident that this should allow a market researcher to formul...

SWAN/SIOC is an alignment of two Web ontologies that, taken together, represent Scientific Discourse in online communities at different levels of granularity (content items and discourse elements). The goal of this alignment is to make the discourse structure and component relationships much more accessible to computation, so that information can be navigated, compared and understood in a conte...