Semantic Wonder Cloud: exploratory search in DBpedia

2th International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM 2010) - Best Workshop Paper at International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010) - -2010

Authors

Mirizzi Roberto, Ragone Azzurra, Di Noia Tommaso, Di Sciascio Eugenio

Abstract

Inspired by the Google Wonder Wheel, in this paper we present Semantic Wonder Cloud (SWOC): a tool that helps users in knowledge exploration within the DBpedia dataset by adopting a hybrid approach. We describe both the architecture and the user interface. The system exploits not only pure semantic connections in the underlying RDF graph but it mixes the meaning of such information with external non-semantic knowledge sources, such as web search engines and tagging systems. Semantic Wonder Cloud allows the user to explore the relations between resources of knowledge domain via a simple and intuitive graphical interface.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_13

BibTex references

@InProceedings{MRDD10c,
  author       = "Mirizzi, Roberto and Ragone, Azzurra and Di Noia, Tommaso and Di Sciascio, Eugenio",
  title        = "Semantic Wonder Cloud: exploratory search in DBpedia",
  booktitle    = "2th International Workshop on  Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM 2010) - Best Workshop Paper at International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010)",
  series       = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  year         = "2010",
  publisher    = "Springer-Verlag",
  note         = "acceptance rate 31%",
  url          = "http://sisinflab.poliba.it/Publications/2010/MRDD10c"

}