Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW2009)

by Krzysztof Janowicz, Mirco Schwarz, Marc Wilkes

As the Web moves towards structured data, new communication paradigms and user interfaces become necessary to support users beyond simple keyword search. In contrast to applications for expert users, these interfaces should hide the complexity of ontology-based systems but still offer their reasoning capabilities. Using Web gazetteers as application area, we discuss how subsumption and similarity reasoning can be integrated into modern Web interfaces and explain the made design decisions. To evaluate our approach, the results from a first human participants test are presented.

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