Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web
Abstract
Information retrieval technology has been central to the success of the Web. For semantic web documents or annotations to have an impact, they will have to be compatible with Web based indexing and retrieval technology. We discuss some of the underlying problems and issues central to extending information retrieval systems to handle annotations in semantic web languages. We also describe three prototype systems that we have implemented to explore these ideas.
Introduction
Information retrieval technology has been central to the success of the Web. Web based indexing and search systems such as Google and Yahoo have profoundly changed the way we access information. For the semantic web technologies [4][5] to have an impact, they will have to be compatible with Web search engines and information retrieval technology in general. We discuss several approaches to using information retrieval systems with both semantic web documents and with text documents that have semantic web annotations.