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SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web

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Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006)

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Existing semantic search tools have been primarily designed to enhance the performance of traditional search technologies but with little support for 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 providing several means to hide the complexity of semantic search from end users and thus make it easy to use and effective.

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  1. Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, Milton Keynes

    Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren & Enrico Motta

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  1. Yuangui Lei
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  1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

  2. Dept. Information and Knowledge Engineering,, University of Economics, Prague, Winston Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vojtěch Svátek

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Lei, Y., Uren, V., Motta, E. (2006). SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web. In: Staab, S., Svátek, V. (eds) Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks. EKAW 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11891451_22

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