Currently, techniques for content description and query processing in Information Retrieval
(IR) are based on keywords, and therefore provide limited capabilities to capture the …

Semantic Search refers to a loose set of concepts, challenges and techniques having to do
with harnessing the information of the growing Web of Data (WoD) for Web search. Here we …

With the continued growth of online semantic information, the processes of searching and
managing this massive scale and heterogeneous content have become increasingly …

With the recent rapid growth of the Semantic Web (SW), the processes of searching and
querying content that is both massive in scale and heterogeneous have become …

Search and information retrieval systems are becoming more expressive in interpreting user
queries beyond the traditional weighted bag-of-words model of document retrieval. For …

A key driver for next generation web information retrieval systems is becoming the degree to
which a user's search and presentation experience is adapted to individual user properties …

Entity-oriented search tasks heavily rely on exploiting unstructured and structured
collections. Moreover, it is frequent for text corpora and knowledge bases to provide …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to discuss sentiment search, which not only retrieves
data related to submitted keywords but also identifies sentiment opinion implied in the …

Many keyword queries issued to Web search engines target information about real world
entities, and interpreting these queries over Web knowledge bases can often enable the …

PowerAqua is a Question Answering system, which takes as input a natural language query
and is able to return answers drawn from relevant semantic resources found anywhere on …