Semantic search on the Web

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fazzinga, Bettina^; | Lukasiewicz, Thomas

Affiliations: Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università della Calabria, Italy | Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. E-mail: [email protected]

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: Web search is a key technology of the Web, since it is the primary way to access content on the Web. Current standard Web search is essentially based on a combination of textual keyword search with an importance ranking of the documents depending on the link structure of the Web. For this reason, it has many limitations, and there are a plethora of research activities towards more intelligent forms of search on the Web, called semantic search on the Web, or also Semantic Web search. In this paper, we give a brief overview of existing such approaches, including own ones, and sketch some possible future directions of research.

Keywords: Semantic search on the Web, Semantic Web search, Web search, Semantic Web, ontologies

DOI: 10.3233/SW-2010-0023

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 1, no. 1-2, pp. 89-96, 2010