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Sindice.com: A document-oriented lookup index for open linked data
- International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
"... Developers of Semantic Web applications face a challenge with respect to the decentralised publication model: how and where to find statements about encountered resources. The “linked data” approach mandates that resource URIs should be de-referenced to return resource metadata. But for data discove ..."
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Developers of Semantic Web applications face a challenge with respect to the decentralised publication model: how and where to find statements about encountered resources. The “linked data” approach mandates that resource URIs should be de-referenced to return resource metadata. But for data discovery linkage itself is not enough, and crawling and indexing of data is necessary. Existing Semantic Web search engines are focused on database-like functionality, compromising on index size, query performance and live updates. We present Sindice, a lookup index over resources crawled on the Semantic Web. Our index allows applications to automatically locate documents containing information about a given resource. In addition, we allow resource retrieval through uniquely identifying inverse-functional properties, offer a full-text search and index SPARQL endpoints. Finally we introduce an extension to the sitemap protocol which allows us to efficiently index large Semantic Web datasets with minimal impact on the data providers.
YARS2: A federated repository for querying graph structured data from the Web
- In ISWC
, 2007
"... Abstract. We present the architecture of an end-to-end semantic search engine that uses a graph data model to enable interactive query answer-ing over structured and interlinked data collected from many disparate sources on the Web. In particular, we study distributed indexing meth-ods for graph-str ..."
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Abstract. We present the architecture of an end-to-end semantic search engine that uses a graph data model to enable interactive query answer-ing over structured and interlinked data collected from many disparate sources on the Web. In particular, we study distributed indexing meth-ods for graph-structured data and parallel query evaluation methods on a cluster of computers. We evaluate the system on a dataset with 430 million statements collected from the Web, and provide scale-up experi-ments on 7 billion synthetically generated statements. 1
A survey of ontology evaluation techniques
- In In Proceedings of the Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses (SiKDD 2005
, 2005
"... An ontology is an explicit formal conceptualization of some domain of interest. Ontologies are increasingly used in various fields such as knowledge management, information extraction, and the semantic web. Ontology evaluation is the problem of assessing a given ontology from the point of view of a ..."
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An ontology is an explicit formal conceptualization of some domain of interest. Ontologies are increasingly used in various fields such as knowledge management, information extraction, and the semantic web. Ontology evaluation is the problem of assessing a given ontology from the point of view of a particular criterion of application, typically in order to determine which of several ontologies would best suit a particular purpose. This paper presents a survey of the state of the art in ontology evaluation. 1
Executing SPARQL queries over the web of linked data
, 2009
"... Abstract. The Web of Linked Data forms a single, globally distributed dataspace. Due to the openness of this dataspace, it is not possible to know in advance all data sources that might be relevant for query answering. This openness poses a new challenge that is not addressed by traditional research ..."
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Abstract. The Web of Linked Data forms a single, globally distributed dataspace. Due to the openness of this dataspace, it is not possible to know in advance all data sources that might be relevant for query answering. This openness poses a new challenge that is not addressed by traditional research on federated query processing. In this paper we present an approach to execute SPARQL queries over the Web of Linked Data. The main idea of our approach is to discover data that might be relevant for answering a query during the query execution itself. This discovery is driven by following RDF links between data sources based on URIs in the query and in partial results. The URIs are resolved over the HTTP protocol into RDF data which is continuously added to the queried dataset. This paper describes concepts and algorithms to implement our approach using an iterator-based pipeline. We introduce a formalization of the pipelining approach and show that classical iterators may cause blocking due to the latency of HTTP requests. To avoid blocking, we propose an extension of the iterator paradigm. The evaluation of our approach shows its strengths as well as the still existing challenges. 1
Rimom: A dynamic multistrategy ontology alignment framework
- IEEE Trans. on Knowl. and Data Eng
"... Abstract—Ontology alignment identifies semantically matching entities in different ontologies. Various ontology alignment strategies have been proposed; however, few systems have explored how to automatically combine multiple strategies to improve the matching effectiveness. This paper presents a dy ..."
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Abstract—Ontology alignment identifies semantically matching entities in different ontologies. Various ontology alignment strategies have been proposed; however, few systems have explored how to automatically combine multiple strategies to improve the matching effectiveness. This paper presents a dynamic multistrategy ontology alignment framework, named RiMOM. The key insight in this framework is that similarity characteristics between ontologies may vary widely. We propose a systematic approach to quantitatively estimate the similarity characteristics for each alignment task and propose a strategy selection method to automatically combine the matching strategies based on two estimated factors. In the approach, we consider both textual and structural characteristics of ontologies. With RiMOM, we participated in the 2006 and 2007 campaigns of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI). Our system is among the top three performers in benchmark data sets. Index Terms—Heterogeneous databases, knowledge and data engineering tools and techniques, ontology languages. Ç 1
A survey on web clustering engines
, 2009
"... Web clustering engines organize search results by topic, thus offering a complementary view to the flat-ranked list returned by conventional search engines. In this survey, we discuss the issues that must be addressed in the development of a Web clustering engine, including acquisition and preproces ..."
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Web clustering engines organize search results by topic, thus offering a complementary view to the flat-ranked list returned by conventional search engines. In this survey, we discuss the issues that must be addressed in the development of a Web clustering engine, including acquisition and preprocessing of search results, their clustering and visualization. Search results clustering, the core of the system, has specific requirements that cannot be addressed by classical clustering algorithms. We emphasize the role played by the quality of the cluster labels as opposed to optimizing only the clustering structure. We highlight the main characteristics of a number of existing Web clustering engines and also discuss how to evaluate their retrieval performance. Some directions for future research are finally presented.
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web
- In Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference
, 2005
"... Abstract. Swoogle helps software agents and knowledge engineers find Semantic Web knowledge encoded in RDF and OWL documents on the Web. Navigating such a Semantic Web on the Web is difficult due to the paucity of explicit hyperlinks beyond the namespaces in URIrefs and the few inter-document links ..."
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Abstract. Swoogle helps software agents and knowledge engineers find Semantic Web knowledge encoded in RDF and OWL documents on the Web. Navigating such a Semantic Web on the Web is difficult due to the paucity of explicit hyperlinks beyond the namespaces in URIrefs and the few inter-document links like rdfs:seeAlso and owl:imports. In order to solve this issue, this paper proposes a novel Semantic Web navigation model providing additional navigation paths through Swoogle’s search services such as the Ontology Dictionary. Using this model, we have developed algorithms for ranking the importance of Semantic Web objects at three levels of granularity: documents, terms and RDF graphs. Experiments show that Swoogle outperforms conventional web search engine and other ontology libraries in finding more ontologies, ranking their importance, and thus promoting the use and emergence of consensus ontologies. 1
The Two Cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WIDE WEB. 2007 MAY 7-8
, 2007
"... A common perception is that there are two competing visions for the future evolution of the Web: the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. A closer look, though, reveals that the core technologies and concerns of these two approaches are complementary and that each field can and must draw from the other’s stren ..."
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A common perception is that there are two competing visions for the future evolution of the Web: the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. A closer look, though, reveals that the core technologies and concerns of these two approaches are complementary and that each field can and must draw from the other’s strengths. We believe that future web applications will retain the Web 2.0 focus on community and usability, while drawing on Semantic Web infrastructure to facilitate mashup-like information sharing. However, there are several open issues that must be addressed before such applications can become commonplace. In this paper, we outline a semantic weblogs scenario that illustrates the potential for combining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies, while highlighting the unresolved issues that impede its realization. Nevertheless, we believe that the scenario can be realized in the short-term. We point to recent progress made in resolving each of the issues as well as future research directions for each of the communities.
How the semantic web is being used: An analysis of foaf documents
- In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences
, 2005
"... Abstract — Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of published RDF documents using the Friend of a F ..."
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Abstract — Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of published RDF documents using the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) vocabulary, providing a valuable resource for investigating how early Semantic Web adopters use this technology as well as build social networks. We describe an approach to identify, discover, and analyze FOAF documents. Over 1.5 million of FOAF documents are collected to show the variety and scalability of the web of FOAF documents. We analyzed the empirical usage of namespace and properties in the FOAF community, which helps the FOAF project in standardizing vocabularies. We also analyzed the social networks induced by those FOAF documents and revealed interesting patterns which can become powerful resource for outsourcing and justification of scientific knowledge. I.
Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the Semantic Web: An Experience Report
- Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0, European Semantic Web Conference
, 2007
"... Abstract. While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered by being agnostic to the relations that exist between these tags. To overcome this limitation, several methods have been proposed to find groups of implici ..."
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Abstract. While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered by being agnostic to the relations that exist between these tags. To overcome this limitation, several methods have been proposed to find groups of implicitly inter-related tags. We believe that content retrieval can be further improved by making the relations between tags explicit. In this paper we propose the semantic enrichment of folksonomy tags with explicit relations by harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., dynamically selecting and combining relevant bits of knowledge from online ontologies. Our experimental results show that, while semantic enrichment needs to be aware of the particular characteristics of folksonomies and the Semantic Web, it is beneficial for both. 1
