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SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web

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SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web
Semantic search promises to produce precise answers to user queries by taking advantage of the availability of explicit semantics of information in the context of the semantic web. Existing tools have been primarily designed to enhance the performance of traditional search technologies but with little support for naive users, i.e., ordinary end users who are not necessarily familiar with domain specific semantic data, ontologies, or SQL-like query languages. This paper presents SemSearch, a search engine, which pays special attention to this issue by hiding the complexity of semantic search from end users and making it easy to use and effective. In contrast with existing semantic-based keyword search engines which typically compromise their capability of handling complex user queries in order to overcome the problem of knowledge overhead, SemSearch not only overcomes the problem of knowledge overhead but also supports complex queries. Further, SemSearch provides comprehensive means to ...
Yuangui Lei, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where EKAW
Authors Yuangui Lei, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta
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