International Affairs Portal: a semantic web application
J. G. Contreras, V. Richard Benjamins, Mercedes Blázquez, Silvestre Losada, Rahul Salla, Javier Sevilla, David Navarro, J. Casillas, A. Mompó, D. Patón, Luis Miguel Rodrigo, Policarpio D. Tena, Isabel Molina Martos · 2004
This paper describes a semantic portal on the domain of International Affairs. This application is an integration of several technologies in the field of the Semantic Web in a complex project. We describe an approach, tools and techniques that allow building a semantic portal, where access is based on the meaning of concepts and relations of the International Affairs domain. The approach comprises an automatic ontology-based annotator, a semantic search engine with a natural language interface, a web publication tool allowing semantic navigation, and a 3D visualization component. The portal is being deployed in the Royal Institute Elcano (Real Instituto Elcano) in Spain, which is a prestigious independent political institute whose mission is to comment on the political situation in the world focusing on its relation to Spain. As part of its dissemination strategy it operates a public website. The online content can be accessed by navigating through categories or by a keyword-based, full text search engine. The work described in this paper aims at improving access to the content. The semantic portal is currently being tested by the Institute.