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In this chapter, we propose a set of methodological guidelines for defining exploratory search applications upon structured contents distributed on the Web and accessible through a service-oriented paradigm. We first motivate our work by describing our vision and our entity-based service registration framework; we then describe how applications can be designed by using a pattern-based method. Evidence of the feasibility of the approach is given by showing some deployed applications at work, and the general architecture of our software framework.
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This research is part of the search computing (SeCo) project, funded by ERC, under the 2008 Call for “IDEAS Advanced Grants” (http://www.search-computing.org). We wish to thank all the contributors to the project.
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Brambilla, M., Ceri, S. (2012). Designing Exploratory Search Applications upon Web Data Sources. In: De Virgilio, R., Guerra, F., Velegrakis, Y. (eds) Semantic Search over the Web. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25008-8_3
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