LivingKnowledge: Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time

LivingKnowledge DIT-PRJ-08-054

Homepage http://livingknowledge-project.eu/
Status NOT active project
DISI role Coordinator
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2008-11-01
Start date 2009-02-01
End date 2012-02-01

Project details

Project astract Knowledge and its articulations are strongly influenced by diversity in, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, geographical contexts. Judgements, assessments and opinions, which play a crucial role in many areas of democratic societies, including politics and economics, reflect this diversity in perspective and goals. For the information on the Web (including, e.g., news and blogs) diversity - implied by the ever increasing multitude of information providers - is the reason for diverging viewpoints and conflicts. Time and evolution add a further dimension making diversity an intrinsic and unavoidable property of knowledge.<br/>The vision inspiring LivingKnowledge is to consider diversity an asset and to make it traceable, understandable and exploitable, with the goal to improve navigation and search in very large multimodal datasets (e.g., the Web itself).<br/>LivingKnowledge will study the effect of diversity and time on opinions and bias, a topic with high potential for social and economic exploitation. We envisage a future where search and navigation tools (e.g., search engines) will automatically classify and organize opinions and bias (about, e.g., global warming or the Olympic games in China) and, therefore, will produce more insightful, better organized, easier-to-understand output.<br/>LivingKnowledge employs interdisciplinary competences from, e.g., philosophy of science, cognitive science, library science and semiotics. The proposed solution is based on the foundational notions of context and its ability to localize meaning, and the notion of facet, as from library science, and its ability to organize knowledge as a set of interoperable components (i.e., facets). The project will construct a very large testbed, integrating many years of Web history and value-added knowledge, state-of-the-art search technology and the results of the project. The testbed will be made available for experimentation,<br/>dissemination, and exploitation.
Keywords Diversity, time and evolution, opinions, context, facets, pattern recognition, knowledge management, search, bias
Fundings 4809460 €
Partners
  • ISI - Indian Statistical Institute
  • UniTN - University of Trento
  • BA - FUNDACIO BARCELONA MEDIA UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA
  • SORA - Institute for Social Research and Analysis Ogris & Hofinger GmbH
  • CNIT - CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
  • EA - STICHTING EUROPEAN ARCHIVE
  • UNIPV - UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA
  • SOUTHAMPTON - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
  • LUH - GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER
  • MPG - MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

DISI Sub-project details

Fundings 875597 €
Manager Fausto Giunchiglia