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A distributed, semiotic-inductive, and human-oriented approach to web-scale knowledge retrieval

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Michael Alexander Kaufmann,

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Web-KR '12: Proceedings of the 2012 international workshop on Web-scale knowledge representation, retrieval and reasoning

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2389656.2389658

Published: 29 October 2012 Publication History

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Web-scale knowledge retrieval can be enabled by distributed information retrieval; clustering Web clients to a large-scale computing infrastructure for knowledge discovery from Web documents. Based on this infrastructure, we propose to apply semiotic (i.e., sub-syntactical) and inductive (i.e., probabilistic) methods for inferring concept associations in human knowledge. These associations can be combined to form a fuzzy (i.e., gradual) semantic net representing a map of the knowledge in the Web. Thus, we propose to provide interactive visualizations of these cognitive concept maps to end users, who can browse and search the Web in a human-oriented, visual, and associative interface.

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Web-KR '12: Proceedings of the 2012 international workshop on Web-scale knowledge representation, retrieval and reasoning

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DOI:10.1145/2389656

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VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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