State of the Art Exploration Systems for Linked Data: A Review

The ever-increasing amount of data available on the web is the result of the simplicity of sharing data over the current Web. To retrieve relevant information efficiently from this huge dataspace, a sophisticated search technology, which is further complicated due to the various data formats used, is crucial. Semantic Web (SW) technology has a prominent role in search engines to alleviate this issue by providing a way to understand the contextual meaning of data so as to retrieve relevant, high-quality results. An Exploratory Search System (ESS), is a featured data looking and search approach which helps searchers learn and explore their unclear topics and seeking goals through a set of actions. To retrieve high-quality retrievals for ESSs, Linked Open Data (LOD) is the optimal choice. In this paper, SW technology is reviewed, an overview of the search strategies is provided, and followed by a survey of the state of the art Linked Data Browsers (LDBs) and ESSs based on LOD. Finally, each of the LDBs and ESSs is compared with respect to several features such as algorithms, data presentations, and explanations.

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