Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

Semantic Web Search and Inductive Reasoning

  • Conference paper
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web II (URSW 2010, URSW 2009, URSW 2008, UniDL 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 7123))

Abstract

Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving towards some novel form of Semantic Web search. A very promising recent such approach is based on combining standard Web pages and search queries with ontological background knowledge, and using standard Web search engines as the main inference motor of Semantic Web search. In this paper, we further enhance this approach to Semantic Web search by the use of inductive reasoning techniques. This adds especially the important ability to handle inconsistencies, noise, and incompleteness, which are all very likely to occur in distributed and heterogeneous environments, such as the Web. We report on a prototype implementation of the new approach and experimental results.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Aarts, E., Korst, J., Michiels, W.: Simulated annealing. In: Burke, E.K., Kendall, G. (eds.) Search Methodologies, ch. 7, pp. 187–210. Springer (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Baader, F., Calvanese, D., McGuinness, D.L., Nardi, D., Patel-Schneider, P.F. (eds.): The Description Logic Handbook. Cambridge University Press (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., Lassila, O.: The Semantic Web. Sci. Am. 284, 34–43 (2001)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Bloehdorn, S., Sure, Y.: Kernel Methods for Mining Instance Data in Ontologies. In: Aberer, K., Choi, K.-S., Noy, N., Allemang, D., Lee, K.-I., Nixon, L.J.B., Golbeck, J., Mika, P., Maynard, D., Mizoguchi, R., Schreiber, G., Cudré-Mauroux, P. (eds.) ISWC/ASWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4825, pp. 58–71. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  5. Borgida, A., Walsh, T.J., Hirsh, H.: Towards measuring similarity in description logics. In: Proc. DL 2005. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 147. CEUR-WS.org (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Brin, S., Page, L.: The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Comput. Netw. 30(1-7), 107–117 (1998)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P.: Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap Between Text and Knowledge. IOS Press (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Cheng, G., Ge, W., Qu, Y.: Falcons: Searching and browsing entities on the Semantic Web. In: Proc. WWW 2008, pp. 1101–1102. ACM Press (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Chirita, P.-A., Costache, S., Nejdl, W., Handschuh, S.: P-TAG: Large scale automatic generation of personalized annotation TAGs for the Web. In: Proc. WWW 2007, pp. 845–854. ACM Press (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Cimiano, P., Haase, P., Heizmann, J., Mantel, M., Studer, R.: Towards portable natural language interfaces to knowledge bases — The case of the ORAKEL system. Data Knowl. Eng. 65(2), 325–354 (2008)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Cohen, W.W., Hirsh, H.: Learning the CLASSIC description logic. In: Proc. KR 1994, pp. 121–133. Morgan Kaufmann (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Corby, O., Dieng-Kuntz, R., Faron-Zucker, C.: Querying the Semantic Web with Corese search engine. In: Proc. ECAI 2004, pp. 705–709. IOS Press (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Cristianini, N., Shawe-Taylor, J.: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines. Cambridge University Press (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  14. d’Amato, C., Fanizzi, N., Esposito, F.: Query Answering and Ontology Population: An Inductive Approach. In: Bechhofer, S., Hauswirth, M., Hoffmann, J., Koubarakis, M. (eds.) ESWC 2008. LNCS, vol. 5021, pp. 288–302. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  15. d’Amato, C., Staab, S., Fanizzi, N.: On the Influence of Description Logics Ontologies on Conceptual Similarity. In: Gangemi, A., Euzenat, J. (eds.) EKAW 2008. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 5268, pp. 48–63. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  16. Damljanovic, D., Agatonovic, M., Cunningham, H.: Natural Language Interfaces to Ontologies: Combining Syntactic Analysis and Ontology-Based Lookup through the User Interaction. In: Aroyo, L., Antoniou, G., Hyvönen, E., ten Teije, A., Stuckenschmidt, H., Cabral, L., Tudorache, T. (eds.) ESWC 2010, Part I. LNCS, vol. 6088, pp. 106–120. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  17. d’Aquin, M., Lieber, J., Napoli, A.: Decentralized Case-Based Reasoning for the Semantic Web. In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729, pp. 142–155. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  18. Ding, L., Finin, T.W., Joshi, A., Peng, Y., Pan, R., Reddivari, P.: Search on the Semantic Web. IEEE Computer 38(10), 62–69 (2005)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Fanizzi, N., d’Amato, C., Esposito, F.: Evolutionary conceptual clustering based on induced pseudo-metrics. Int. J. Semantic Web Inf. Syst. 4(3), 44–67 (2008)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Fanizzi, N., d’Amato, C., Esposito, F.: Induction of classifiers through non-parametric methods for approximate classification and retrieval with ontologies. Int. J. Semant. Comput. 2(3), 403–423 (2008)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  21. Fanizzi, N., d’Amato, C., Esposito, F.: Metric-based stochastic conceptual clustering for ontologies. Inform. Syst. 34(8), 725–739 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Fazzinga, B., Gianforme, G., Gottlob, G., Lukasiewicz, T.: Semantic Web search based on ontological conjunctive queries. J. Web Sem. 9(4), 453–473 (2011)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Fazzinga, B., Lukasiewicz, T.: Semantic search on the Web. Sem. Web 1(1/2), 89–96 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  24. Fernández, M., Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Uren, V.S., Vallet, D., Motta, E., Castells, P.: Semantic search meets the Web. In: Proc. ICSC 2008, pp. 253–260. IEEE Computer Society (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  25. Finin, T.W., Ding, L., Pan, R., Joshi, A., Kolari, P., Java, A., Peng, Y.: Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web. In: Proc. AAAI 2005, pp. 1682–1683. AAAI Press/MIT Press (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  26. Google, http://www.google.com

  27. Guha, R.V., McCool, R., Miller, E.: Semantic search. In: Proc. WWW 2003, pp. 700–709. ACM Press (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  28. Haase, P., van Harmelen, F., Huang, Z., Stuckenschmidt, H., Sure, Y.: A Framework for Handling Inconsistency in Changing Ontologies. In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729, pp. 353–367. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  29. Harth, A., Hogan, A., Delbru, R., Umbrich, J., O’Riain, S., Decker, S.: SWSE: Answers before links! In: Proc. Semantic Web Challenge 2007. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 295. CEUR-WS.org (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Heflin, J., Hendler, J.A., Luke, S.: SHOE: A blueprint for the Semantic Web. In: Fensel, D., Wahlster, W., Lieberman, H. (eds.) Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential, pp. 29–63. MIT Press (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  31. Hitzler, P., Vrandečić, D.: Resolution-Based Approximate Reasoning for OWL DL. In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729, pp. 383–397. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  32. Hu, B., Kalfoglou, Y., Alani, H., Dupplaw, D., Lewis, P.H., Shadbolt, N.: Semantic Metrics. In: Staab, S., Svátek, V. (eds.) EKAW 2006. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4248, pp. 166–181. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  33. Iannone, L., Palmisano, I., Fanizzi, N.: An algorithm based on counterfactuals for concept learning in the Semantic Web. Int. J. Appl. Intell. 26(2), 139–159 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Janowicz, K., Wilkes, M.: SIM-DLA: A Novel Semantic Similarity Measure for Description Logics Reducing Inter-concept to Inter-instance Similarity. In: Aroyo, L., Traverso, P., Ciravegna, F., Cimiano, P., Heath, T., Hyvönen, E., Mizoguchi, R., Oren, E., Sabou, M., Simperl, E. (eds.) ESWC 2009. LNCS, vol. 5554, pp. 353–367. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  35. Kasneci, G., Suchanek, F.M., Ifrim, G., Ramanath, M., Weikum, G.: NAGA: Searching and ranking knowledge. In: Proc. ICDE 2008, pp. 953–962. IEEE Computer Society (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  36. Kietz, J.U., Morik, K.: A polynomial approach to the constructive induction of structural knowledge. Mach. Learn. 14, 193–218 (1994)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  37. Lehmann, J., Hitzler, P.: Foundations of Refinement Operators for Description Logics. In: Blockeel, H., Ramon, J., Shavlik, J., Tadepalli, P. (eds.) ILP 2007. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4894, pp. 161–174. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  38. Lei, Y., Uren, V.S., Motta, E.: SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web. In: Staab, S., Svátek, V. (eds.) EKAW 2006. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4248, pp. 238–245. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  39. Lopez, V., Pasin, M., Motta, E.: AquaLog: An Ontology-Portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Euzenat, J. (eds.) ESWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3532, pp. 546–562. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  40. Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Motta, E.: PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly. In: Cruz, I., Decker, S., Allemang, D., Preist, C., Schwabe, D., Mika, P., Uschold, M., Aroyo, L.M. (eds.) ISWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4273, pp. 414–427. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  41. Mitchell, T.: Machine Learning. McGraw Hill (1997)

    Google Scholar 

  42. Nienhuys-Cheng, S.-H.: Distances and Limits on Herbrand Interpretations. In: Page, D.L. (ed.) ILP 1998. LNCS, vol. 1446, pp. 250–260. Springer, Heidelberg (1998)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  43. Nováček, V., Groza, T., Handschuh, S.: CORAAL – Towards Deep Exploitation of Textual Resources in Life Sciences. In: Combi, C., Shahar, Y., Abu-Hanna, A. (eds.) AIME 2009. LNCS, vol. 5651, pp. 206–215. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  44. Oren, E., Guéret, C., Schlobach, S.: Anytime Query Answering in RDF through Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Sheth, A.P., Staab, S., Dean, M., Paolucci, M., Maynard, D., Finin, T., Thirunarayan, K. (eds.) ISWC 2008. LNCS, vol. 5318, pp. 98–113. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  45. Poggi, A., Lembo, D., Calvanese, D., De Giacomo, G., Lenzerini, M., Rosati, R.: Linking Data to Ontologies. In: Spaccapietra, S. (ed.) Journal on Data Semantics X. LNCS, vol. 4900, pp. 133–173. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  46. Schölkopf, B., Smola, A.J.: Learning with Kernels. MIT Press (2002)

    Google Scholar 

  47. Suchanek, F.M., Kasneci, G., Weikum, G.: Yago: A core of semantic knowledge. In: Proc. WWW 2007, pp. 697–706. ACM Press (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  48. Thomas, E., Pan, J.Z., Sleeman, D.H.: ONTOSEARCH2: Searching ontologies semantically. In: Proc. OWLED 2007. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 258. CEUR-WS.org (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  49. Tran, T., Cimiano, P., Rudolph, S., Studer, R.: Ontology-Based Interpretation of Keywords for Semantic Search. In: Aberer, K., Choi, K.-S., Noy, N., Allemang, D., Lee, K.-I., Nixon, L.J.B., Golbeck, J., Mika, P., Maynard, D., Mizoguchi, R., Schreiber, G., Cudré-Mauroux, P. (eds.) ISWC/ASWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4825, pp. 523–536. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  50. Tummarello, G., Cyganiak, R., Catasta, M., Danielczyk, S., Delbru, R., Decker, S.: Sig.ma: Live views on the Web of data. In: Proc. WWW 2010, pp. 1301–1304. ACM Press (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  51. Zenz, G., Zhou, X., Minack, E., Siberski, W., Nejdl, W.: From keywords to semantic queries — Incremental query construction on the Semantic Web. J. Web Sem. 7(3), 166–176 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  52. Zezula, P., Amato, G., Dohnal, V., Batko, M.: Similarity Search — The Metric Space Approach. Advances in Database Systems, vol. 32. Springer (2006)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy

    Claudia d’Amato & Nicola Fanizzi

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università della Calabria, Italy

    Bettina Fazzinga

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

    Georg Gottlob & Thomas Lukasiewicz

  4. Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford, UK

    Georg Gottlob

Authors
  1. Claudia d’Amato
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Nicola Fanizzi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Bettina Fazzinga
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Georg Gottlob
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Thomas Lukasiewicz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Ada Byron Building, Maria de Luna 1, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    Fernando Bobillo

  2. Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University, Engineering Building, 4400 University Drive, 22030-4444, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Paulo C. G. Costa

  3. Dipatimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Claudia d’Amato

  4. Dipatimento di Informatica and CILA, Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Nicola Fanizzi

  5. Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University, Engineering Building, 4400 University Drive, 22030-4444, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Kathryn B. Laskey

  6. MIRTE Corporation, M/S H305, 7515 Colshire Drive, 22102-7508, McLean, VA, USA

    Kenneth J. Laskey

  7. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK

    Thomas Lukasiewicz

  8. Technische Universität München, Abteilung für Informatk, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Matthias Nickles

  9. Goldman Sachs, 30 Hudson Street, 07302-4699, Jersey City, NJ, USA

    Michael Pool

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

d’Amato, C., Fanizzi, N., Fazzinga, B., Gottlob, G., Lukasiewicz, T. (2013). Semantic Web Search and Inductive Reasoning. In: Bobillo, F., et al. Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web II. URSW URSW URSW UniDL 2010 2009 2008 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35975-0_13

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35975-0_13

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-35974-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-35975-0

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics