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Super-Fast RDF Search Engine Developed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the google-to-buy-ireland dept.

The Register is reporting that Irish researchers have developed a new high-speed RDF search engine capable of answering search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in mere fractions of a second. "'The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated,' said Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI. 'These results enable us to create web search engines that really deliver answers instead of links. The technology also allows us to combine information from the web, for example the engine can list all partnerships of a company even if there is no single web page that lists all of them.'"

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  1. Links! by SolitaryMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These results enable us to create web search engines that really deliver answers instead of links.

    I need both: answers *and* links! Many times when I search the web, I don't know for sure what am I searching for, let alone being able to ask specific question...

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  2. Hype by gvc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    users should get more relevant results


    Yet another /. article parroting an uncritical popular press account of a press release.
    1. Re:Hype by StefanDecker · · Score: 2, Insightful

      We have a Technical Report available at http://www.deri.ie/fileadmin/documents/DERI-TR-200 7-04-20.pdf that should answer most of the technical questions. From the abstract: "We present the architecture of an end-to-end search engine that uses a graph data model to enable interactive query answering over structured and interlinked data collected from many disparate sources on the Web. In particular, we study distributed indexing methods for graph-structured data and parallel query evaluation methods on a cluster of computers. We evaluate the system on a dataset with 430 million statements collected from the Web, and provide scale-up experiments on 7 billion synthetically generated statements."

  3. Next up: Ontology spam by G4from128k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, creating a consistent ontology is challenge. But the bigger challenge is the lack of incentive for ontology truthfulness. If this type of search becomes popular, ontology spam and OSEO (Ontology Search Engine Optimization) will become a booming industry.

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    1. Re:Next up: Ontology spam by treeves · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ontology SPAM is OK, but Epistemology Spread is really yummy!

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  4. Cannot be overestimated by stevenp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    - "The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated"

    The importance of any event can be overestimated and quite often is overestimated. It is called hype.
    When speaking of XML, XHTML and semantic WEB then the word "overestimated" fits just nice.
    If this was not the case then HTML should long have been dead and the whole WEB should have been based on pure XML with meaningful tags.

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  5. Re:This could be huge by complete+loony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah, but the Dewey Decimal system only works because responsible people are involved in categorizing everything. They let just anyone publish information on the internet these days.

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    09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
  6. TMA: Too Many Acronyms by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why assume everyone knows your acronyms. To me RDF means "Reality Distortion Field". Zeesh, 7 billion triples or whatever.

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  7. Re:Here's the Tech Report by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are too modest. You're the lead author. Congratulations on a first-rate contribution to mankind. And such a young pup, too.

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