Is there anything worth finding on the semantic web?

There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the possibilities of combining structured data and ad-hoc information retrieval from traditional hypertext. In this experiment, we run queries extracted from a query log of a major search engine against the Semantic Web to discover if the Semantic Web has anything of interest to the average user. We show that there is indeed much information on the Semantic Web that could be relevant for many queries for people, places and even abstract concepts, although they are overwhelmingly clustered around a Semantic Web-enabled export of Wikipedia known as DBPedia. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Search Process General Terms Experimentation, Measurement Keywords Search, Semantic Web, information retrieval, Linked Data

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Harry Halpin
• Keywords: Ad-hoc Information Retrieval, Internet Technology, Semantic Web, Semantic Web-enabled Export, WWW 2009