[Ann] Falcons (Autumn 2008): Seeking Knowledge in the Semantic Web

Hi all,

We are delighted to announce that Falcons, a Semantic Web search engine, has been updated to a new version [1]. Compared to the last one [2], new features of this version include:

- In object/concept search, a knowledge snippet (top-3 property-value pairs, which are beyond typing information) for each found object/concept is provided to help you understand the result.

- RDF document search, a new service for seeking knowledge within single RDF documents, is available. For each found document, a knowledge fragment (a minimum number of RDF sentences hit by keywords) is provided. Besides, top-2 metadata (beyond title property) about each resulted document might be provided. 

- All entities (objects, classes, properties) in results and snippets are clickable (in the green colour), forwarding to an all-around knowledge about the entity, which is a list of RDF sentences integrated from all over the Semantic Web.


To start up, please click here to get the result for the keyword query: "Tim Berners-Lee" Knows.


Any comments are welcome!

Regards,

Yuzhong Qu 
Institute of Web Science
Southeast University, China


[1] http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/ 
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Feb/0019.html