On Monday, 23rd of February 2015, Edgard Marx will introduce Smart, a search engine designed over the Semantic Search paradigm; subsequently, Tommaso Soru will present ROCKER, a refinement operator approach for key discovery.
EDIT: Tommaso Soru’s presentation was moved to March 2nd.
Abstract – Smart
Since the conception of the Web, search engines play a key role in making content available. However, retrieving of the desire information is still significantly challenging. Semantic Search systems are a natural evolution of the traditional search engines. They promise more accurate interpretation by understanding the contextual meaning of the user query. In this talk, we will introduce our audience to Smart, a search engine designed over the Semantic Search paradigm. Smart incorporates two of our currently designed approaches of dealing with the problem of Information Retrieval, as well as a novel interface paradigm. Moreover, we will present some of the former, as well as more recent state-of-the-art approaches used by the industry – for instance by Yahoo!, Google and Facebook.
Abstract – ROCKER
As within the typical entity-relationship model, unique and composite keys are of central importance also when their concept is applied on the Linked Data paradigm. They can provide help in manifold areas, such as entity search, question answering, data integration and link discovery. However, the current state of the art does not count approaches able to scale while relying on a correct definition of key. We thus present a refinement-operator-based approach dubbed ROCKER, which has shown to scale to big datasets with respect to the run time and the memory consumption. ROCKER will be officially introduced at the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web.
Tommaso Soru, Edgard Marx, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, “ROCKER – A Refinement Operator for Key Discovery”. [PDF]
