Information Retrieval (IR) through Semantic Web (SW): An Overview
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paper_title: Information retrieval on the Semantic Web:

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vision of the Semantic Web is that it will be much like the Web we know today, except that documents will be enriched by annotations in machine understandable markup. These annotations will provide metadata about the documents as well as machine interpretable statements capturing some of the meaning of document content. We discuss how the informa- tion retrieval paradigm might be recast in such an environ- ment. We suggest that retrieval can be tightly bound to infer- ence. Doing so makes today's Web search engines useful to Semantic Web inference engines, and causes improvements in either retrieval or inference to lead directly to improvements in the other.
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paper_title: An Ontology-Based Information Retrieval Model

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Semantic search has been one of the motivations of the Semantic Web since it was envisioned. We propose a model for the exploitation of ontology-based KBs to improve search over large document repositories. Our approach includes an ontology-based scheme for the semi-automatic annotation of documents, and a retrieval system. The retrieval model is based on an adaptation of the classic vector-space model, including an annotation weighting algorithm, and a ranking algorithm. Semantic search is combined with keyword-based search to achieve tolerance to KB incompleteness. Our proposal is illustrated with sample experiments showing improvements with respect to keyword-based search, and providing ground for further research and discussion.
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Title: Information Retrieval (IR) through Semantic Web (SW): An Overview

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: Introduce the concept of combining text documents with Semantic Web technologies and the limitations of current IR techniques.

Section 2: SEMANTIC WEB (SW)
Description 2: Discuss the current state and philosophy of the Semantic Web, including its definition and reasons for its limited use in practice.

Section 3: PRINCIPLE OF SW
Description 3: Explain the differences between the Semantic Web and the World Wide Web, highlighting how SW is machine understandable.

Section 4: SEMANTIC WEB ARCHITECTURE
Description 4: Detail the components and structure of Semantic Web architecture, including URIs, UNICODE, RDF, and inference mechanisms.

Section 5: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR)
Description 5: Describe the processes and techniques involved in Information Retrieval, focusing on keyword extraction and document ranking.

Section 6: IR PROCESS and ARCHITECTURE
Description 6: Outline the IR process and its architecture, emphasizing the role of ontology in storing background knowledge and aiding query transformation.

Section 7: HIR (HYBRID INFORMATION RETRIEVAL)
Description 7: Introduce the Hybrid Information Retrieval approach, explaining how it integrates standard IR methods to avoid document differences.

Section 8: Components of HIR
Description 8: List and describe the specific components involved in the Hybrid Information Retrieval system.

Section 9: PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS
Description 9: Present the three prototype systems developed for IR within the Semantic Web: OWLIR, SWANGLER, and SWOOGLE, explaining their functionalities and use cases.

Section 10: OWLIR
Description 10: Dive into the details of OWLIR, its architecture, and its components like HAIRCUT and WONDIR, describing how it retrieves text and semantic documents.

Section 11: Swangler
Description 11: Explain the SWANGLER prototype system, its purpose in enriching RDF documents, and how it interacts with search engines like Google.

Section 12: Swoogle
Description 12: Describe the SWOOGLE prototype search engine, its mechanism for indexing and retrieving Semantic Web documents, and its analysis activities.

Section 13: Analysis
Description 13: Summarize the analytical outcomes of using Swoogle, focusing on its ability to search appropriate ontologies, data instances, and characterizing the Semantic Web.

Section 14: CONCLUSIONS
Description 14: Conclude with a summary emphasizing the importance of the Semantic Web in IR, the effectiveness of the described prototype systems, and future opportunities.