Semantic Search Overview

From SWUIWiki

This overview accompanies the semantic search survey. We state the intended purpose, intended users, the scope, the triple store and optionally the technique or software that is used for literal indexing.

Overview of existing systems

	Purpose	Users	Scope	Store	Index
Examples	Search engine Information management Faceted Browser Portal Wiki Other	End user Developer Software agent	Web resources Resources on the semantic web & Specific collection Entire (semantic) web	Sesame Jena Virtuoso SWI prolog Semantic Web Library Other	Lucene Other
AquaBrowser demo	Search engine, faceted browser	End-users (novice-medium)	Web resources/resource from specific collection	Application Specific	?
AquaLog demo, paper	Question Answering	End Users (medium-expert)	Resources from specific collection	?	GATE
Autofocus demo, paper	Search engine, Browser	End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection (from RDFized text documents)	Sesame	Lucene
BrowseRDF demo, paper	Faceted Browser	End Users (novice-medium)	Resources from specific collection	Any store accessible through ActiveRDF	Ferret (Ruby port of Lucene)
DBin demo, paper	Information management	Developers. End users (medium-expert)	Resources from specific collection	?	?
DBpedia Search demo	Search Engine	End Users (novice-medium)	Web resources and resources from specific collection (Wikipedia RDF)	Virtuoso	Virtuoso
e-Culture demo, paper	Portal, Search engine	End users (novice-medium)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	SWI Prolog Semantic Web Library	SWI Prolog Semantic Web Library (porter stemming)
Falcon-S demo	Search Engine, Query builder	End users (novice-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Sesame and OWLIM	Lucene
Flink demo, paper	Browser	End users (medium-expert)	Resources from specific collection	Sesame	-
FreeBase demo	Data management, Wiki, Search engine	End-users (novice-expert)	Resources from specific collection	Database ?	?
Ginseng paper, movie	Question answering	End users (novice-medium)	Resources from specific collection	?	?
H-DOSE paper	Search Engine	Developers, End Users	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Sesame	SQL DB
Haystack demo, paper	Information management	Developers and end users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Application specific (C++)	Lucene
Hybrid Search paper)	Search engine	End users	Resources from specific collection	Application specific	Lucene
InWiss paper	Search Engine	End Users	Resources from specific collection	Sesame	Applications specific index
KIM demo, paper	Information management, Search engine, Faceted browser	Developers and end users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection (Text documents and extracted metadata)	Sesame	Lucene
Longwell demo	Faceted browser	End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Sesame	Lucene
mspace demo, paper	Browser	End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	?	?
Museum Finland demo, paper	Portal, Faceted Browser, Search Engine	End users (novice-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Ontogator	Ontogator
OntoKhoj paper	Search engine	Developers	Resources on the Semantic Web	?	?
OntoSearch paper	Search engine	Developers	Resources on the Semantic Web	?	?
OntoWiki demo, paper	Wiki, Faceted Browser	End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	MySQL	MySQL
OpenAcademia demo	Search engine, Browser	End users (novice-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Sesame	?
OWLIR paper	Search engine	End users	Web resources and resources from specific collection	DAMLJessKB	SIRE
QuizRDF paper	Search Engine	End Users (novice-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Application specific	Application specific
ReSIST RKB Explorer demo	Browser	End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	3store	?
SemSearch demo	Search Engine	End Users (medium-expert)	Resources from specific collection	Sesame	Lucene
Semantic MediaWiki demo, paper	Wiki	End Users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	MySQL	?
SHOE search tool demo, paper	Search Engine	Developers	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Application specific	?
Slashfacet demo, paper	Faceted Browser	Developers. End users (medium-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	SWI prolog semantic web library	SWI prolog semantic web library (porter stemming)
Squiggle demo, paper	Search Engine	End Users (novice-medium)	Web resources and resources from specific collection (RDFized image metadata)	Sesame	Lucene, record data and literal values in RDF
Squirrel paper	Search Engine	End users (novice-experts)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	KAON2 and Sesame+OWLIM	Lucene
Swoogle demo, paper	Search Engine	Developers and Software agents	Resources and SW documents on the Semantic Web	?	?
SWSE demo	Search engine	Developers, End users (novice-medium)	Resources on the Semantic Web	YARS	Lucene
Tap: Semantic Search demo, paper	Search Engine	End users (novice-medium)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Tap Framework	Tap Framework
Topia demo, paper	Search engine	End users (novice-expert)	Web resources and resources from specific collection	Sesame	-