A suite of metrics is proposed to assess the quality of an ontology. Drawing upon semiotic
theory, the metrics assess the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and social aspects of ontology …

A broad range of approaches to semantic document retrieval has been developed in the
context of the Semantic Web. This survey builds bridges among them. We introduce a …

Database query languages can be intimidating to the non-expert, leading to the immense
recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy grail …

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 …

The research and development of metallic materials are playing an important role in today's
society, and in the meanwhile lots of metallic materials knowledge is generated and …

Abstract While Information Retrieval (IR) systems have gained success in Web-style search
engines in the past two decades, nonetheless, the DataBase (DB) paradigm remains …

In the past decade, there has been an increasing need for semantic-aware data search and
indexing in textual (structured and NoSQL) databases, as full-text search systems became …

This book introduces the semantic aspects of natural language processing and its
applications. Topics covered include: measuring word meaning similarity, multi-lingual …

A major impediment to accurate information retrieval from the World Wide Web is the
inability of search engines to incorporate semantics in the search process. This research …

Abstract Concept recommendation is a widely used technique aimed to assist users to
chose the right tags, improve their Web search experience and a multitude of other tasks. In …