From keywords to semantic queries-Incremental query construction on the semantic web

  • Authors:
  • Gideon Zenz;Xuan Zhou;Enrico Minack;Wolf Siberski;Wolfgang Nejdl

  • Affiliations:
  • L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany;CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia;L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany;L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany;L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Constructing semantic queries is a demanding task for human users, as it requires mastering a query language as well as the schema which has been used for storing the data. In this paper, we describe QUICK, a novel system for helping users to construct semantic queries in a given domain. QUICK combines the convenience of keyword search with the expressivity of semantic queries. Users start with a keyword query and then are guided through a process of incremental refinement steps to specify the query intention. We describe the overall design of QUICK, present the core algorithms to enable efficient query construction, and finally demonstrate the effectiveness of our system through an experimental study.