Combining Semantic Web Search with the Power of Inductive Reasoning

Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving towards some novel form of Semantic Web search. A very promising recent approach to such SemanticWeb search is based on combining standard Web search with ontological background knowledge and using standard Web search engines as the main inference motor of Semantic Web search. In this paper, we propose to further enhance this approach to Semantic Web search by the use of inductive reasoning techniques. This adds especially the important ability to handle inconsistencies, noise, and incompleteness, which are very likely to occur in distributed and heterogeneous environments, such as theWeb.We report on a prototype implementation of the new approach and experimental results.

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