Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web

A NSF Medium ITR project

'Casar-Rank' Context-Aware Seamantic Association Ranking

Demo mentioned in Aleman-Meza, Halaschek et al.'s Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web

Ranking Semantic Associations Demo

There is a version of the demo that requires Flash.

There is a live version of the Demo of Ranking Semantic Associations (Alternative Location of: Demo of Ranking Semantic Associations)

The demo is made available in the form of a WAR file to be deployed in Tomcat (tested with version 5.5.11).
License: This version of Ranking Demo is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 (Creative Commons)

The following publications are the background of this demo:

• Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, and Amit Sheth, "Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web" (journal version), IEEE Internet Computing, 9(3), pp. 37-44, May/June 2005
• Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth. "Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking" (proceedings version), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, Berlin, Germany, September 7-8, 2003; pp. 33-50. Presentation (ppt)
• Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth. "Discovering and Ranking Semantic Associations over a Large RDF Metabase," 30th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, August 30 - September 03, 2004, Toronto, Canada. Demonstration Paper (conference version) (Poster)

The contact person for details/problems/questions/etc on this page is Boanerges Aleman-Meza (balemanuga.edu)

FAQ:

1. Is the source code available?
   We are evaluating a Java version of the underlying code (basically, an API and toolkit). As soon as these components reach an stable status we will make a decision on making the source code available. The first components to be made available will include the applet for visualization (modified from a version of TouchGraph, together with the tomcat-interaction servlet that communicates with the applet)
2. What queries can I try?
   An easy one, is typing "bush" in both fields, then select George W as one of the entities, and Jeb as the other entity. The ontology is quite small, you can see it by inspecting the 'war' file; in the directory WEB-INF/data there are the files for ontology schema + instances
3. I'm getting a java version mismatch error!
   If you get this in the page where the ranking parameters can be changed, then the applet fails to load because the local machine's Java is a lower version than Java 1.5
4. Can a different ontology be used?
   The 'war' file can be uncompressed for updating the contents of the WEB-INF/data directory in order to incorporate a different file for the ontology-schema, and ontology-instances. The web.xml file would have to be updated as well to reflect this change
5. Which ontology is used?
   See schema + instances

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0325464 titled "SemDis: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web". Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.