Emerging Semantic-Based Applications

In the last decade, we have witnessed the birth and spread of the Semantic Web and its associated semantic technologies. In this successful scenario, ontologies have played a crucial role. However, being knowledge representation frameworks as they are, the benefits of their use are beyond the WWW, but to many other different kind of systems, making it possible to design and develop smarter information systems which exploit the semantics of data.In this chapter, we present different semantic-based applications and projects that we have developed in the Distributed Information Systems (SID, in Spanish) research group of the University of Zaragoza. They address different application fields benefiting from semantic technologies to broaden their capabilities. In particular, we present our semantic systems for keyword-based search (QueryGen, Doctopush), information extraction (GENIE), fuzzy logic editing (Fuzzy OWL 2) and reasoning (fuzzy DL, DeLorean), and Location-Based Services managing (SHERLOCK).

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