A COLLABORATIVE, SEMANTIC AND CONTEXT AWARE SEARCH ENGINE

Manuela Angioni, Roberto Demontis, Massimo Deriu, Emanuela De Vita, Cristian Lai, Ivan Marcialis, Gavino Paddeu, Antonio Pintus, Andrea Piras, Raffaella Sanna Alessandro Soro, Alessandro Soro, Franco Tuveri

2007

Abstract

Search engines help people to find information in the largest public knowledge system of the world: the Web. Unfortunately its size makes very complex to discover the right information. The users are faced lots of useless results forcing them to select one by one the most suitable. The new generation of search engines evolve from keyword-based indexing and classification to more sophisticated techniques considering the meaning, the context and the usage of information. We argue about the three key aspects: collaboration, geo-referencing and semantics. Collaboration distributes storage, processing and trust on a world-wide network of nodes running on users’ computers, getting rid of bottlenecks and central points of failures. The geo-referencing of catalogued resources allows contextualisation based on user position. Semantic analysis lets to increase the results relevance. In this paper, we expose the studies, the concepts and the solutions of a research project to introduce these three key features in a novel search engine architecture.

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Angioni M., Demontis R., Deriu M., De Vita E., Lai C., Marcialis I., Paddeu G., Pintus A., Piras A., Sanna Alessandro Soro R., Soro A. and Tuveri F. (2007). A COLLABORATIVE, SEMANTIC AND CONTEXT AWARE SEARCH ENGINE . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 213-218. DOI: 10.5220/0002406202130218


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Manuela Angioni and Roberto Demontis and Massimo Deriu and Emanuela De Vita and Cristian Lai and Ivan Marcialis and Gavino Paddeu and Antonio Pintus and Andrea Piras and Raffaella Sanna Alessandro Soro and Alessandro Soro and Franco Tuveri},
title={A COLLABORATIVE, SEMANTIC AND CONTEXT AWARE SEARCH ENGINE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={213-218},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002406202130218},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - A COLLABORATIVE, SEMANTIC AND CONTEXT AWARE SEARCH ENGINE
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Angioni M.
AU - Demontis R.
AU - Deriu M.
AU - De Vita E.
AU - Lai C.
AU - Marcialis I.
AU - Paddeu G.
AU - Pintus A.
AU - Piras A.
AU - Sanna Alessandro Soro R.
AU - Soro A.
AU - Tuveri F.
PY - 2007
SP - 213
EP - 218
DO - 10.5220/0002406202130218