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Activities such as Web Services and the Semantic Web are working to create a web of distributed machine understandable data. In this paper we present an application called 'Semantic Search' which is built on these supporting technologies and is designed to improve traditional web searching. We provide an overview of TAP, the application framework upon which the Semantic Search is built. We describe two implemented Semantic Search systems which, based on the denotation of the search query, augment traditional search results with relevant data aggregated from distributed sources. We also discuss some general issues related to searching and the Semantic Web and outline how an understanding of the semantics of the search terms can be used to provide better results.

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DQL: Daml query language. http://www.daml.org/dql/.Google Scholar
DAML: Darpa agent markup language. http://www.daml.org/.Google Scholar
ODP: The open directory project. http://www.dmoz.org/.Google Scholar
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Jena: B. McBride. Jena: Implementing the rdf model and syntax specication. http://www- uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/papers/20001221-paper/, 2001. Hewlett Packard Laboratories.Google Scholar
Lore: J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, and J. Widom. Lore: A database management system for semistructured data. SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data), 26(3):54, 1997. Google Scholar Digital Library
Squish: L. Miller, A. Seaborne, and A. Reggiori. Three implementations of squishql, a simple rdf query language. In International Semantic Web Conference, pages 423--435, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library
LSI: C. H. Papadimitriou, H. Tamaki, P. Raghavan, and S. Vempala. Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis. pages 159--168, 1998.Google Scholar
TAPKB: R.Guha and R. McCool. The tap knowledge base. http://tap.stanford.edu/.Google Scholar
TAP: R.Guha and R. McCool. Tap: Towards a web of data. http://tap.stanford.edu/.Google Scholar
RANK: R. Siebes and F. van Harmelen. Ranking agent statements for building evolving ontologies. In P. Bouquet, editor, Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, in conjunction with the Eighteenth National Conference on Articial Intelligence, July 2002.Google Scholar

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Apache: The apache http server. http://www.apache.org/.Google Scholar
DQL: Daml query language. http://www.daml.org/dql/.Google Scholar
DAML: Darpa agent markup language. http://www.daml.org/.Google Scholar
ODP: The open directory project. http://www.dmoz.org/.Google Scholar
RSS: Rdf site summary. http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/.Google Scholar
XQuery: S. Boag, D. Chamberlin, M. F. Fernandez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, J. Simeon, and M. Stefanescu. XQuery 1.0: An XML query language. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/, 30 April 2002. W3C working draft.Google Scholar
SOAP: D. Box, D. Ehnebuske, G. Kakivaya, A. Layman, N. Mendelsohn, H. F. Nielsen, S. Thatte, and D. Winder. Simple Object Access Protocol. http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/, May 2000.Google Scholar
RDFS: D. Brickley and R. V. Guha. Rdf schema. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/.Google Scholar
Google: Google. http://www.google.com.Google Scholar
SHOE: J. Hein and J. Hendler. Searching the web with shoe. In AAAI-2000 Workshop on AI for Web Search.Google Scholar
RQL: G. Karvounarakis, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, and M. Scholl. Rql: a declarative query language for rdf. In WWW, pages 592--603, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library
Jena: B. McBride. Jena: Implementing the rdf model and syntax specication. http://www- uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/papers/20001221-paper/, 2001. Hewlett Packard Laboratories.Google Scholar
Lore: J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, and J. Widom. Lore: A database management system for semistructured data. SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data), 26(3):54, 1997. Google Scholar Digital Library
Squish: L. Miller, A. Seaborne, and A. Reggiori. Three implementations of squishql, a simple rdf query language. In International Semantic Web Conference, pages 423--435, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library
LSI: C. H. Papadimitriou, H. Tamaki, P. Raghavan, and S. Vempala. Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis. pages 159--168, 1998.Google Scholar
TAPKB: R.Guha and R. McCool. The tap knowledge base. http://tap.stanford.edu/.Google Scholar
TAP: R.Guha and R. McCool. Tap: Towards a web of data. http://tap.stanford.edu/.Google Scholar
RANK: R. Siebes and F. van Harmelen. Ranking agent statements for building evolving ontologies. In P. Bouquet, editor, Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, in conjunction with the Eighteenth National Conference on Articial Intelligence, July 2002.Google Scholar

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In this paper we present an application called 'Semantic Search' which is built on these supporting technologies and is designed to improve traditional web searching. We provide an overview of TAP, the application framework upon which the Semantic Search is built. We describe two implemented Semantic Search systems which, based on the denotation of the search query, augment traditional search results with relevant data aggregated from distributed sources. We also discuss some general issues related to searching and the Semantic Web and outline how an understanding of the semantics of the search terms can be used to provide better results. References 1. Apache: The apache http server. http://www.apache.org/. Google Scholar 2. DQL: Daml query language. http://www.daml.org/dql/. Google Scholar 3. DAML: Darpa agent markup language. http://www.daml.org/. Google Scholar 4. ODP: The open directory project. http://www.dmoz.org/. Google Scholar 5. RSS: Rdf site summary. http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/. Google Scholar 6. XQuery: S. Boag, D. Chamberlin, M. F. Fernandez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, J. Simeon, and M. Stefanescu. XQuery 1.0: An XML query language. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/, 30 April 2002. W3C working draft. Google Scholar 7. SOAP: D. Box, D. Ehnebuske, G. Kakivaya, A. Layman, N. Mendelsohn, H. F. Nielsen, S. Thatte, and D. Winder. Simple Object Access Protocol. http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/, May 2000. Google Scholar 8. RDFS: D. Brickley and R. V. Guha. Rdf schema. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/. Google Scholar 9. Google: Google. http://www.google.com. Google Scholar 10. SHOE: J. Hein and J. Hendler. Searching the web with shoe. In AAAI-2000 Workshop on AI for Web Search. Google Scholar 11. RQL: G. Karvounarakis, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, and M. Scholl. Rql: a declarative query language for rdf. In WWW, pages 592--603, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library 12. Jena: B. McBride. Jena: Implementing the rdf model and syntax specication. http://www- uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/papers/20001221-paper/, 2001. Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Google Scholar 13. Lore: J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, and J. Widom. Lore: A database management system for semistructured data. SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data), 26(3):54, 1997. Google Scholar Digital Library 14. Squish: L. Miller, A. Seaborne, and A. Reggiori. Three implementations of squishql, a simple rdf query language. In International Semantic Web Conference, pages 423--435, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library 15. LSI: C. H. Papadimitriou, H. Tamaki, P. Raghavan, and S. Vempala. Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis. pages 159--168, 1998. Google Scholar 16. TAPKB: R.Guha and R. McCool. The tap knowledge base. http://tap.stanford.edu/. Google Scholar 17. TAP: R.Guha and R. McCool. Tap: Towards a web of data. http://tap.stanford.edu/. Google Scholar 18. RANK: R. 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XQuery: S. Boag, D. Chamberlin, M. F. Fernandez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, J. Simeon, and M. Stefanescu. XQuery 1.0: An XML query language. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/, 30 April 2002. W3C working draft. Google Scholar 7. SOAP: D. Box, D. Ehnebuske, G. Kakivaya, A. Layman, N. Mendelsohn, H. F. Nielsen, S. Thatte, and D. Winder. Simple Object Access Protocol. http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/, May 2000. Google Scholar 8. RDFS: D. Brickley and R. V. Guha. Rdf schema. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/. Google Scholar 9. Google: Google. http://www.google.com. Google Scholar 10. SHOE: J. Hein and J. Hendler. Searching the web with shoe. In AAAI-2000 Workshop on AI for Web Search. Google Scholar 11. RQL: G. Karvounarakis, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, and M. Scholl. Rql: a declarative query language for rdf. In WWW, pages 592--603, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library 12. Jena: B. McBride. Jena: Implementing the rdf model and syntax specication. http://www- uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/papers/20001221-paper/, 2001. Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Google Scholar 13. Lore: J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, and J. Widom. Lore: A database management system for semistructured data. SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data), 26(3):54, 1997. Google Scholar Digital Library 14. Squish: L. Miller, A. Seaborne, and A. Reggiori. Three implementations of squishql, a simple rdf query language. In International Semantic Web Conference, pages 423--435, 2002. Google Scholar Digital Library 15. LSI: C. H. Papadimitriou, H. Tamaki, P. Raghavan, and S. Vempala. Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis. pages 159--168, 1998. Google Scholar 16. TAPKB: R.Guha and R. McCool. The tap knowledge base. http://tap.stanford.edu/. Google Scholar 17. TAP: R.Guha and R. McCool. Tap: Towards a web of data. http://tap.stanford.edu/. Google Scholar 18. RANK: R. 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