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SPARQL – Compliant Semantic Search Engine with an Intuitive User Interface

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Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2014)

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It is crucial to enable users of Linked Data to explore RDF-compliant knowledge bases in an intuitive and effective way. It is not reasonable to assume that a regular user posses any knowledge about the SPARQL nor about the ontology of the given knowledge base. This paper presents the Semantic Focused Crawler (SFC) system which features a graph-based querying interface that address this issue. As a result of the use of auto-complete recommendations within the SFC query builder interface, the user benefits from using the ontology irrespectively from the degree of the knowledge about semantic technologies he/she possesses. When compared to several widely-referenced alternative solutions in experiments performed with the use of 2011 QALD workshop questions, the presented system appears as achieving high query results accuracy and low complexity of the query formulation process.

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Sq. 5, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Adam Styperek, Michal Ciesielczyk & Andrzej Szwabe

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen  & Bogdan Trawiński  & 

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, 10520, Bangkok, Thailand

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Styperek, A., Ciesielczyk, M., Szwabe, A. (2014). SPARQL – Compliant Semantic Search Engine with an Intuitive User Interface. In: Nguyen, N.T., Attachoo, B., Trawiński, B., Somboonviwat, K. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05476-6_21

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