Implementation and Evaluation of a Semantics-based User Interface for Web Gazetteers
Krzysztof Janowicz, Mirco Schwarz, Marc Wilkes · 2009
As the Web moves towards structured data, new communication paradigms and user interfaces become necessary to support users beyond simple keyword search. In contrast to applications for expert users, these interfaces should hide the complexity of ontology-based systems but still offer their reasoning capabilities. Using Web gazetteers as application area, we discuss how subsumption and similarity reasoning can be integrated into modern Web interfaces and explain the made design decisions. To evaluate our approach, the results from a first human participants test are presented. Author Keywords