article

The usability of semantic search tools: A review

Authors:

Marina GiordaninoAuthors Info & Claims

The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 22, Issue 4

Pages 361 - 377

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888907001233

Published: 01 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The goal of semantic search is to improve on traditional search methods by exploiting the semantic metadata. In this paper, we argue that supporting iterative and exploratory search modes is important to the usability of all search systems. We also identify the types of semantic queries the users need to make, the issues concerning the search environment and the problems that are intrinsic to semantic search in particular. We then review the four modes of user interaction in existing semantic search systems, namely keyword-based, form-based, view-based and natural language-based systems. Future development should focus on multimodal search systems, which exploit the advantages of more than one mode of interaction, and on developing the search systems that can search heterogeneous semantic metadata on the open semantic Web.

References

[1]

Aleman-Meza, B., Halaschek-Weiner, C., Arpinar, I. B., Ramakrishnan, C. & Sheth, A. P., 2005 Ranking complex relationships on the semantic Web. IEEE Internet Computing 9(3), 37-44.

Digital Library

[2]

Athanasis, N., Christophides, V. & Kotzinos, D. 2004 Generating on the fly queries for the semantic web: the ICS-FORTH graphical RQL interface (GRQL). In 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'04). Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 486-501.

[3]

Bamba, B. & Mukherjea, S. 2005 Utilizing Resource Importance for Ranking Semantic Web Query Results, In Semantic Web and Databases, LNCS Volume 3372/2005. pp. 185-198.

[4]

Bernstein, A. & Kaufmann, E. 2006 GINO-a Guided Input Ontology Editor. In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference. pp. 144-157.

[5]

Buscaldi, D., Rosso, P. & Sanchis Arnal, E. 2005 A WordNet-based queryexpansion method for geographical information retrieval. In CLEF 2005 Workshop at GeoCLEF 2005. Vienna, Austria.

[6]

Catarci, T., Di Mascio, T., Franconi, E., Santucci, G. & Tessaris, S. An ontology based visual tool for query formulation support. In 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-04). 2004. Valencia, Spain, pp. 308-312.

Digital Library

[7]

Cimiano, P. 2004 ORAKEL: A natural language interface to an f-logic knowledge base. In 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB). pp. 401-406.

[8]

Corby, O., Dieng-Kuntz, R., Faron-Zucker, C. & Gandon, F. 2006 Searching the semantic web: approximate query processing based on ontologies. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(1), 20-27.

Digital Library

[9]

Ding, L., Finin, T., Joshi, A., Pan, R., Cost, R. S., Peng, Y., Reddivari, P., Doshi, V. C. & Sachs, J. 2004 Swoogle: a search and metadata engine for the semantic web. In Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. pp. 652-659.

[10]

Ding, L., Pan, R., Finin, T., Joshi, A., Peng, Y. & Kolari, P. 2005 Finding and ranking knowledge on the semantic web. In 4th International Semantic Web Conference, LNCS 3729 2005 pp. 156-170.

[11]

Euzenat, J. & Shvaiko, P. 2007 Ontology Matching, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

[12]

Gruber, T. R. 1995 Towards principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 43(5-6), 907-928.

Digital Library

[13]

Guha, R., McCool, R. & Miller, E. 2003 Semantic search. In 12th International Conference on World Wide Web. pp. 700-709.

[14]

Hyvonen, E., Saarela, S. & Viljanen, K. 2003 Ontogator: combining view-and ontology-based search with semantic browsing. In XML Finland 2003, Open Standards, XML, and the Public Sector. Kuopio, Finland, pp. 82-85.

[15]

Kelly, D. & Teevan, J. 2003 Implicit feedback for inferring user preference: a bibliography. SIGIR Forum 32(2), 18-28

Digital Library

[16]

Lee, J. & Goodwin, R. 2005 The semantic webscape: a view of the semantic web. In WWW'05: Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th International Conference on World Wide Web. New York, pp. 1154-1155.

[17]

Lei, Y., Uren, V. & Motta, E. 2006 SemSearch: a search engine for the semantic web. In 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006). Podebrady, Czech Republic, pp. 238-245.

[18]

Lopez, V., Pasin, M. & Motta, E. 2005 AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web. In 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005). Heraklion, Crete, Greece, pp. 546-562.

[19]

Lopez, V., Motta, E., Uren, V. 2006 PowerAqua: fishing the Semantic Web. In European Sematic Web Conference (ESWC 2006). Budva, Montenegro, pp. 393-410.

[20]

Lopez, V., Sabou, M., & Motta, E. 2006 PowerMap: mapping the real semantic web on the fly. In ISWC. Athens, GA, USA, pp. 414-427.

[21]

Marchioni, G. 2006 Exploratory search: from finding to understanding. Communications of the ACM, 49(4), 41-46.

[22]

Mc Guinness, D. 2004 Question answering on the semantic web. IEEE Intelligent Systems 19(1), 82-85.

Digital Library

[23]

Mihalcea, R. & Moldovan, D. 2005 Semantic indexing using wordnet senses. In Proceedings of the ACL-2000 workshop on Recent advances in natural language processing and information retrieval: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 35-45.

[24]

Motta, E. & Sabou, M. 2006 Next generation semantic web applications. In 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference. Beijing.

[25]

schraefel, m.c., Wilson, M., Russell, A., & Smith, D.A., 2006 mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search. Communications of the ACM 49(4), 47-49.

Digital Library

[26]

Shneiderman, B. 1998 Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction, Reading, MA; Harlow: Addison Wesley.

[27]

Sinha, V., Karger, D. R. 2005 Magnet: supporting navigation in semistructured data environments. In 2005 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Baltimore, Maryland, ACM Press, pp. 97-106.

[28]

Stuckenschmidt, H., Giunchiglia, F. & van Harmelen, F. 2005 Query Processing in Ontology-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems, In Tamma, V. Cranefield, S. Finin, T. Willmott, S. (eds.), Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, Birkhäuser. pp. 145-168.

[29]

Uren, V., Cimiano, P., Iria, J., Handschuh, S., Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E. & Ciravegna, F. 2006 Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art. Journal of Web Semantics 4(1), 14-28.

Digital Library

[30]

Vallet, D., Fernández, M. & Castells, P. 2005 The Quest for Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web. Upgrade Journal, Monograph: The Semantic Web 6(6), 19-23.

[31]

White, R.W., Kules, B. & Bederson, B. 2005 Exploratory Search Interfaces: Categorization, Clustering and Beyond. Report on the XSI 2005 Workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland. ACM SIGIR Forum 39(2), pp. 52-56.

Digital Library

[32]

Wu, H., Cheng, G., Qu, Y. 2006 Falcon-S: An ontology-based approach to searching objects and images in the Soccer domain. Supplemental Proceedings of ISWC, Nov. 2006.

Cited By

Sajja SAggarwal NMukherjee SManglik KDwivedi SRaykar V(2021)Explainable AI based Interventions for Pre-season Decision Making in Fashion RetailProceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (8th ACM IKDD CODS & 26th COMAD)10.1145/3430984.3430995(281-289)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430984.3430995
Soylu AKharlamov EZheleznyakov DJimenez-Ruiz EGiese MSkjæveland MHovland DSchlatte RBrandt SLie HHorrocks I(2018)OptiqueVQSSemantic Web10.3233/SW-1802939:5(627-660)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/SW-180293
Acosta MZaveri ASimperl EKontokostas DFlöck FLehmann J(2018)Detecting Linked Data quality issues via crowdsourcingSemantic Web10.3233/SW-1602399:3(303-335)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/SW-160239
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

The usability of semantic search tools: A review
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
2. Theory of computation
  1. Design and analysis of algorithms
    1. Algorithm design techniques
      1. Dynamic programming
    2. Data structures design and analysis
      1. Sorting and searching

Recommendations

A semi search algorithm towards semantic search using domain ontologies

In the current Web 2.0 O'Reilly, 2005, the problem is of efficient retrieval of concerned specific information due to prevalent keyword-based search. Semantic web Berners-Lee et al., 2001 provides a hope in this direction by providing search based on ...
Comprehensive analysis of semantic web reasoners and tools: a survey

Ontologies are emerging as best representation techniques for knowledge based context domains. The continuing need for interoperation, collaboration and effective information retrieval has lead to the creation of semantic web with the help of tools and ...
Towards semantic faceted search
WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

In this paper we present limitations of conventional faceted search in the way data, facets, and queries are modelled. We discuss how these limitations can be addressed with Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL 2, and SPARQL 1.1. We also present a ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image The Knowledge Engineering Review

The Knowledge Engineering Review Volume 22, Issue 4

December 2007

96 pages

ISSN:0269-8889

Issue’s Table of Contents

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

United States

Publication History

Published: 01 December 2007

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

17
Total Citations
View Citations
0
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 05 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Sajja SAggarwal NMukherjee SManglik KDwivedi SRaykar V(2021)Explainable AI based Interventions for Pre-season Decision Making in Fashion RetailProceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (8th ACM IKDD CODS & 26th COMAD)10.1145/3430984.3430995(281-289)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430984.3430995
Soylu AKharlamov EZheleznyakov DJimenez-Ruiz EGiese MSkjæveland MHovland DSchlatte RBrandt SLie HHorrocks I(2018)OptiqueVQSSemantic Web10.3233/SW-1802939:5(627-660)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/SW-180293
Acosta MZaveri ASimperl EKontokostas DFlöck FLehmann J(2018)Detecting Linked Data quality issues via crowdsourcingSemantic Web10.3233/SW-1602399:3(303-335)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/SW-160239
Soylu AGiese MSchlatte RJimenez-Ruiz EKharlamov EÖzçep ÖNeuenstadt CBrandt SBikakis AStavropoulos TMeditskos G(2017)Querying industrial stream-temporal dataJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments10.3233/AIS-1604159:1(77-95)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/AIS-160415
Soylu AGiese MJimenez-Ruiz EKharlamov EZheleznyakov DHorrocks I(2017)Ontology-based end-user visual query formulationUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-016-0465-016:2(435-467)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10209-016-0465-0
Koumenides CShadbolt N(2014)Ranking methods for entity-oriented semantic web searchJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2301865:6(1091-1106)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23018
Wrigley SGarcía-Castro RNixon LMille AGandon FMisselis JRabinovich MStaab S(2012)Semantic evaluation at large scale (SEALS)Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web10.1145/2187980.2188033(299-302)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2187980.2188033
Nuzzolese A(2012)Knowledge pattern extraction and their usage in exploratory searchProceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part II10.1007/978-3-642-35173-0_37(449-452)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-35173-0_37
Elbedweihy KWrigley SCiravegna F(2012)Evaluating semantic search query approaches with expert and casual usersProceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part II10.1007/978-3-642-35173-0_18(274-286)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-35173-0_18
Lopez VUren VSabou MMotta E(2011)Is question answering fit for the semantic web?Semantic Web10.5555/2336450.23364552:2(125-155)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2336450.2336455
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents