Archive for July, 2007

Paper on “Interactive Thesaurus Assessment for Automatic Document Annotation” accepted for K-CAP 2007

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

The paper “Interactive Thesaurus Assessment for Automatic Document Annotation” written by Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Magnus Pfeffer and me was accepted for the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007) in Whistler, Canada.

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Semantic Search with Lexxe

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

After my last experiments with the semantic search engine Hakia, today I found this article about another semantic search engine: Lexxe. As Charles asked for Lexxe’s answers to other questions, I repeated my little set of questions and here are the results: (more…)

Semantic Search with Hakia

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

A fairly new approach to overcome the problems with the set up of the semantic web is the development of semantic search engines. Instead of relying on the (mostly not existent) semantic annotations of web pages, these engines are powered by a semantic model of the world and should be able to “understand” the content of arbitrary web pages. This approach differs from search engines for the semantic web, like Swoogle which only searches and analyses pages with semantic annotations. One such a semantic search engine is Hakia. (more…)