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How NAGA uncoils: searching with entities and relations

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Current keyword-oriented search engines for theWorld WideWeb do not allow specifying the semantics of queries. We address this limitation with NAGA1, a new semantic search engine. NAGA builds on a large semantic knowledge base of binary relationships (facts) derived from the Web. NAGA provides a simple, yet expressive query language to query this knowledge base. The results are then ranked with an intuitive scoring mechanism. We show the effectiveness and utility of NAGA by comparing its output with that of Googleon some interesting queries.

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    WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
    May 2007
    1382 pages
    ISBN:9781595936547
    DOI:10.1145/1242572
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    1. entities
    2. graph queries
    3. knowledge base
    4. ranking
    5. relation
    6. search
    7. semantics

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    • (2010)Beyond pagesProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology10.1145/1739041.1739047(15-26)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2010
    • (2008)Semantically Enhanced Entity RankingProceedings of the 9th international conference on Web Information Systems Engineering10.1007/978-3-540-85481-4_15(176-188)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2008

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