Spinque Alignment Service Connected Data event, AmsterdamDecember 2, 2014Wouter Alink, Michiel Hildebrand
We search graphs
Since 2008 we’ve worked on Search by strategy
W. Alink, R. Cornacchia, and A. P. de Vries, Searching CLEF-IP by strategy, in 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Revised Selected Papers, 2010. [pdf]
Example: data in a university
search multiple connected data-sourcesXML, CSV files, API's
... and model it as a graph
Search by Strategy
projects by topic topic expert
Spinque pipeline
Linked Data
Great! now we already have “The Graph”.
Problem solved!
Spinque Linked Data
Spinque ranks RDF
Example - rank restaurants by:- user keywords- inspection results- distance from you- visual strategies built on linked RDF data
- Inspection authority + business registry + health ministry + ...
But, the real world...Thesaurus A
Thesaurus B
Alignment solutions
VU/CWI Research AmalgameHappy alignments are all alike,every unhappy alignment is unhappy in it’s own way
Jacco van Ossenbruggen 2012 (improvisation on Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1887)
Interactive vocabulary alignment Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Michiel Hildebrand, Victor de Boer, TPDL 2011
Manual alignments Automatic alignments
Alignment by strategy
Alignment Strategies
Amalgame strategy = Spinque strategy
Coming soon:
Spinque Alignment Service
made possible by B&G and RCE
Alignment is hardly ever certain.Is this bad?
On the contrary. Search deals with uncertainty.
Hide uncertainty → worse searchUse uncertainty → better search
Alignment & Search
sameAssameAs (0.8)
sameAs (0.1)
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