A Unified Approach to Retrieving Web Documents and Semantic Web Data

The Semantic Web seems to be evolving into a property-linked web of RDF data, conceptually divorced from (but physically housed in) the hyperlinked web of HTML documents. We discuss the Unified Web model that integrates the two webs and formalizes the structure and the semantics of interconnections between them. We also discuss the Hybrid Query Language which combines the Data and Information Retrieval techniques to provide a convenient and uniform way to retrieve data and documents from the Unified Web. We present the retrieval system SITAR and some preliminary results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ESWS
• Authors: Trivikram Immaneni, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
• Keywords: ESWS 2007, Semantic Web, Unified Web, Unified Web Model