Like in my posts about semantic search with Hakia and Lexxe, Tim Finin posted a set of questions posed to AskWiki, a semantic search engine that uses Wikipedia to answer questions. AskWiki is a collaboration project of Wikimedia Foundation and AskMeNow, a company that is specialized in answering questions in natural language via a mobile phone.
Enough said, here are the results: ebiquity.umbc.edu
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…)
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…)
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