Beagle++: Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publicationResearch and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages348-362
Number of pages15
ISBN (electronic)978-3-540-34545-9
ISBN (print)978-3-540-34544-2
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) - Budva
Duration: 11 Jun 200614 Jun 2006
Conference number: 3

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NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4011 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (electronic)1611-3349

Abstract

Existing desktop search applications, trying to keep up with the rapidly increasing storage capacities of our hard disks, offer an incomplete solution for information retrieval. In this paper we describe our Beagle- desktop search prototype, which enhances conventional fulltext search with semantics and ranking modules. This prototype extracts and stores activity-based metadata explicitly as RDF annotations. Our main contributions are extensions we integrate into the Beagle desktop search infrastructure to exploit this additional contextual information for searching and ranking the resources on the desktop. Contextual information plus ranking brings desktop search much closer to the performance of web search engines. Initially disconnected sets of resources on the desktop are connected by our contextual metadata, PageRank derived algorithms allow us to rank these resources appropriately. First experiments investigating precision and recall quality of our search prototype show encouraging improvements over standard search.

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Beagle++: Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop. / Chirita, Paul Alexandru; Costache, Stefania; Nejdl, Wolfgang et al.
The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2006. p. 348-362 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4011 LNCS).

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Chirita, PA, Costache, S, Nejdl, W & Paiu, R 2006, Beagle++: Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop. in The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4011 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 348-362, 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, 11 Jun 2006. https://doi.org/10.1007/11762256_27
Chirita, P. A., Costache, S., Nejdl, W., & Paiu, R. (2006). Beagle++: Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop. In The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings (pp. 348-362). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4011 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11762256_27
Chirita PA, Costache S, Nejdl W, Paiu R. Beagle++: Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop. In The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2006. p. 348-362. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/11762256_27
Chirita, Paul Alexandru ; Costache, Stefania ; Nejdl, Wolfgang et al. / Beagle++ : Semantically enhanced searching and ranking on the desktop. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2006. pp. 348-362 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
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