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SemSearch 2009

Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Search (SemSearch 2009) at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009)

Madrid, Spain, April 21, 2009.

Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Thanh Tran Douc, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Haofen Wang, Apex Data & Knowledge Management Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Table of Contents

Regular Papers

Investigating the Demand Side of Semantic Search through Query Log Analysis
Edgar Meij, Peter Mika and Hugo Zaragoza , pages 2-5

Wanderlust: Extracting Semantic Relations from Natural Language Text Using Dependency Grammar Patterns
Alan Akbik and Juergen Bross, pages 6-15

Towards ECSSE: Live Web of Data Search and Integration
Michele Catasta, Richard Cyganiak and Giovanni Tummarello, pages 16-23

Question Answering Based on Semantic Graphs
Lorand Dali, Delia Rusu, Blaž Fortuna, Dunja Mladenić and Marko Grobelnik, pages 24-30

Relevance Feedback Between Hypertext and Semantic Search
Harry Halpin and Victor Lavrenko, pages 31-40

Using TREC for Cross-comparison Between Classic IR and Ontology-based Search Models at a Web Scale
Miriam Fernandez, Vanesa Lopez, David Vallet, Pablo Castells, Enrico Motta, Marta Sabou and Victoria Uren, pages 41-50

Posters

Semantic Search for Enterprise 2.0
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin and Stefan Decker, pages 51-52

Improving Search Results with Lightweight Semantic Search: Discussion Paper
Marián Šimko and Maria Bielikova, pages 53-54

Story Link Detection With Entity Resolution
Tadej Štajner and Marko Grobelnik, pages 55-56

Retrieval and Ranking of Semantic Entities for Enterprise Knowledge Management Tasks
Chad Cumby, Katharina Probst and Rayid Ghani, pages 57-58

P2P Concept Search: Some Preliminary Results
Fausto Giunchiglia, Uladzimir Kharkevich and S.R.H Noori, pages 59-60

Managing Collaboration Projects using Semantic Email
MDyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Rob Blackwell and Simon Lucas, pages 60-61

Searching and Ranking in RDF documents and Social Networks
Sibel Adali, Alvaro Graves and Konstantin Mertsalov, pages 61-62