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Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web

Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web. Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/179/

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Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web

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  1. Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/179/ Joint work with Li Ding, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Cynthia Parr, Pranam Kolari, Pavan Reddivari, Sandor Dornbush, Rong Pan, Akshay Java, Joel Sachs, Scott Cost and Vishal Doshi  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ This work was partially supported by DARPA contract F30602-97-1-0215, NSF grants CCR007080 and IIS9875433 and grants from IBM, Fujitsu and HP.

  2. Google has made us smarter

  3. tell register But what about our agents? Agents still have a very minimal understanding of text and images.

  4. XML helps “XML is Lisp's bastard nephew, with uglier syntax and no semantics. Yet XML is poised to enable the creation of a Web of data that dwarfs anything since the Library at Alexandria.” -- Philip Wadler, Et tu XML? The fall of the relational empire, VLDB, Rome, September 2001.

  5. Semantic Web adds semantics “The Semantic Web will globalize KR*, just as the WWW globalize hypertext” -- Tim Berners-Lee *Knowledge Representation

  6. Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle tell register But what about our agents? A Google for knowledge on the Semantic Web is needed by software agents and programs

  7. http://swoogle.umbc.edu/ • Running since summer 2004 • 1.5M RDF documents, 300M RDF triples, 10K ontologies

  8. Analysis … SWD classifier Ranking Index Search Services Semantic Web metadata IR Indexer Web Server Web Service SWD Indexer html rdf/xml Discovery the Web document cache SwoogleBot Semantic Web Candidate URLs Bounded Web Crawler Google Crawler human machine Legends Information flow Swoogle‘s web interface Swoogle Architecture

  9. Applications and use cases • Supporting Semantic Web developers • Ontology designers, vocabulary discovery, who’s using my ontologies or data?, use analysis, errors,statistics, etc. • Searching specialized collections • Spire: aggregating observations and data from biologists • InferenceWeb: searching over and enhancing proofs • SemNews: Text Meaning of news stories • Supporting SW tools • Triple shop: finding data for SPARQL queries

  10. 80 ontologies were found that had these three terms By default, ontologies are ordered by their ‘popularity’, but they can also be ordered by recency or size. Let’s look at this one

  11. Basic Metadata hasDateDiscovered:  2005-01-17 hasDatePing:  2006-03-21 hasPingState:  PingModified type:  SemanticWebDocument isEmbedded:  false hasGrammar:  RDFXML hasParseState:  ParseSuccess hasDateLastmodified:  2005-04-29 hasDateCache:  2006-03-21 hasEncoding:  ISO-8859-1 hasLength:  18K hasCntTriple:  311.00 hasOntoRatio:  0.98 hasCntSwt:  94.00 hasCntSwtDef:  72.00 hasCntInstance:  8.00

  12. These are the namespaces this ontology uses. Clicking on one shows all of the documents using the namespace. All of this is available in RDF form for the agents among us.

  13. Here’s what the agent sees. Note the swoogle and wob (web of belief) ontologies.

  14. We can also search for terms (classes, properties) like terms for “person”.

  15. 10K terms associated with “person”! Ordered by use. Let’s look at foaf:Person’s metadata

  16. UMBC Triple Shop • http://sparql.cs.umbc.edu/ • Online SPARQL RDF query processing basedon HP’s Jena and Joseki with several interesting features • Selectable level of inference over model • Automatically finds SWDs for give queries using Swoogle backend database • Provide dataset creation wizard • Dataset can be stored on our server or downloaded • Tag, share and search over saved datasets

  17. Who knows Anupam Joshi? Show me their names, email address and pictures

  18. The UMBC ebiquity site publishes lots of RDF data, including FOAF profiles

  19. No FROM clause! Constraints on wherethe data comes from

  20. PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> SELECT DISTINCT ?p2name ?p2mbox ?p2pix WHERE { ?p1 foaf:name "Anupam Joshi" . ?p1 foaf:mbox ?p1mbox . ?p2 foaf:knows ?p3 . ?p3 foaf:mbox ?p1mbox . ?p2 foaf:name ?p2name . ?p2 foaf:mbox ?p2mbox . OPTIONAL { ?p2 foaf:depiction ?p2pix } . } ORDER BY ?p2name

  21. Swoogle found 292 RDF data files that appear relevant to answering our query

  22. Let’s save the dataset before we use it

  23. And tag it so we and others can find it more easily.

  24. Here we are using it to get an answer to “Who knows Anupam Joshi”

  25. He has many friends!

  26. Conclusion • The web will contain the world’s knowledge in forms accessible to people and computers • We need better ways to discover, index, search and reason over SW knowledge • SW search engines address different tasks than html search engines • So they require different techniques and APIs • Swoogle like systems can help create consensus ontologies and foster best practices • Swoogle is for Semantic Web 1.0 • Semantic Web 2.0 will make different demands

  27. For more information http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/ Annotatedin OWL

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