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Web framework. It is a scientic problem of interpreting content: learning as much
as possible about the context of the content to correctly disambiguate it (Halevy
etal. 2009) and trust it.
Due to the nature of the social ontology learning problem, this chapter dis-
cusses three key research issues: dependency, automation of process, and type of
input content.
e dependency issue concerns the identication of two dierent types of
ontology learning methods: (1a) those developed to handle the problem of ontol-
ogy learning in a direct way and (2) those that depend on the eciency of methods
developed to tackle other problems of ontology engineering. Such an example is
an ontology