QUERY LOGS

There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the possibili-ties of combining structured data and ad-hoc information retrieval from traditional hypertext search, going under the rubric ‘Semantic Search. ’ In this experiment, we run queries extracted from a query log from a major search engine against the Semantic Web, to see if it has anything of interest to the average user, showing that there is indeed much Semantic Web information that could be relevant for many queries for people, places, and abstract concepts on the Semantic Web, although they are overwhelmingly clustered around a Semantic Web-enabled export of Wikipedia