1. Thesaurus based Enterprise Search Two Show Cases Andreas Blumauer Graz, September 2011

2. Agenda Semantic searchscenarios The role of thesauri in semantic search PoolParty Semantic Search Live Demo – http://bit.ly/semantic_search Show Cases & Demos 2

3. 3 Semantic searchscenarios Semantic searchhasmanyfaces

4. Situations in which semantic search can help 4 I want to seefactsfrom different sourcesdescribingthisentity. I can´trememberhow to spell the searchterm I want to knowmoreaboutthisentity in a certaincontext. I want to search in different languagessimultaneously I want to gainbackgroundknowledge to a certaindocument I want the software to understand what I meanby „Jaguar“ I can´trememberexactlywhat I was lookingfor

5. Knowledge worker´squestions 5 What is state of the art in xy? Hasanybodysolved the problemxy? Who can I ask aboutxy? Whatare the otherscurrentlyworking on?

6. Four demands for a smarter search Find information faster Provide search assistants Reveal hidden information Enrich the search index with background knowledge Find more specific informationQuery the semantic web Findlinked informationIntegrate data sources 6

7. Find information faster – Auto-Complete 7 I can´trememberhow to spell the searchterm To provide powerful auto-complete also forenterprisesearch scenariosyouneed to establish an enterprisevocabulary.

8. Find information faster – Status quo 8 I can´trememberexactlywhat I was lookingfor hydropower plants Search Small hydro Search

9. Find information faster with related search terms 9 hydropower plants Search http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search

10. Reveal hidden information – Status quo 10 I forgotsome of the namesfor the entityI´mlookingfor SNCR Search SNCR OR „Selective non- Search

11. Reveal hidden information with query expansion 11 SNCR Search OR "selective non catalytic reduction" SNCR preferred Label alternative Label selective non catalytic reduction

12. Multi-lingual search based on a thesaurus 12 I want to search in different languagessimultaneously clean energy Search OR energíalimpia preferred Label @en clean energy energíalimpia preferredLabel @es

13. Reveal hidden information and relations I want to gainbackgroundknowledge to a certaindocument Find documents or images related to any other text. http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone 13

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17. Complex queries with faceted search over linked data 16 „Show me all airlineswhoseparentcompany is Lufthansa“ http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/

18. MyEnergy-Dossier about Find linked information – Status quo 17 I want to seefactsfrom different sourcesdescribingthisentity. The userhas to put togethermanuallyenergy-related informationabouta country.

19. 360O views: Find linked information 18 Energy-related informationabout countries are „mashed“ automatically byusing „linkeddata“ http://www.reegle.info/countries

20. Add personal context to the search 19 Jaguar Search I want the software to understand what I meanby „Jaguar“

21. 20 The role of thesauri in semantic search How verticalsearchcanbenefitfromknowledgemodels

22. The role of thesauri in semantic search 21

24. facets

25. refinesearchmechanisms

27. Usage of linkeddatafor semantic search Alignthesaurusconceptswith DBpedia resources disambiguation! performance! Enrichconceptwithcategoryinformation schema.org / DBpedia ontology YAGO/Umbel Use categoryinformationforconcepts to categorizedocument (usage of transitivities) to providesearchfacets 24

28. 25 PoolParty Semantic Search (PPS) Make semantic searchcometrue!

29. PoolParty System Architecture 26 SearchApplication Search Services SemanticIndexer Collector Document Index <xml> Cartridge

30. Indexing and Mapping with PoolParty Metadata Standards Rich metadata in a standardized, extensible format (SKOS / RDF) Document metadata is mapped to concepts in the thesaurus Cost efficient metadata management Thesaurus is managed with PoolParty´s easy-to-use Thesaurus Manager One central metadata repository Improved end-user experience Semantic information improves search experience 27

32. Search Service

33. Suggest Service

34. Similarity Service

35. Supportedformats:

36. JSON

37. XML

38. RSShttp://bit.ly/semantic_search

39. PoolParty Semantic Search Demo – Result 29 specifyyourquery withcategorised auto-complete storequeries withsearchbasket select proper facets find similardocumentsforrelevant results facetssupport structuredqueries http://bit.ly/semantic_search

40. 30 Show cases & Demos Thesaurus basedsearch on the web & intranet

41. Show Case No. 1: Semantic Search based on reeglethesaurus 31 Web catalogue of actors SearchApplication Search Services Projects DB SemanticIndexer Collector Document Index Actors DB Cartridge Thesaurus 31

42. Data integration based on Reegle thesaurus 32 <sector> Hydro Power small scale </sector> <category> Micro Hydro </category> Web catalogue Actors DB

43. Show caseNo. 2 - www.reegle.info 33

44. Show Case No. 3: Very large financialinstitute 34 SearchApplication Search Services DMS 1 SemanticIndexer Collector Document Index DMS 2 Cartridge VLFIThesaurus 34

45. Contact Andreas BlumauerManaging Partner, CEOa.blumauer@semantic-web.at Alexander KreiserSystem Architecta.kreiser@semantic-web.at 35 Semantic Web Company GmbHMariahilfer Straße 70A—1070 Wien / Austria +43-1-4021235 http://www.semantic-web.at/http://www.poolparty.biz/ http://bit.ly/semantic_search http://lod2.eu/ http://twitter.com/semwebcompany http://linkd.in/oFFnO4