Publications

Authors

Keith Cortis, Simon Scerri, Ismael Rivera, and Siegfried Handschuh

Abstract

Users are currently required to create and separately manage duplicated personal data in heterogeneous online accounts. Our approach targets the crawling, retrieval and integration of this data, based on a comprehensive ontology framework which serves as a standard format. The motivation for this integration is to enable single point management of the user’s personal information. The main challenge faced by this approach is the discovery of semantic equivalence between contacts described in online profiles, their attributes and shared posts. Contacts found to be semantically equivalent to persons that are already represented within the user’s personal information model are linked together. In this paper we outline our part-syntactic, part-semantic approach to online profile integration, the current status and future plans for research and development concerned with this challenge.