Reflections on five years of evaluating semantic search systems. (17th May 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Uren, Victoria; Sabou, Marta; Motta, Enrico; Fernandez, Miriam; Lopez, Vanessa; Lei, Yuangui
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 5:Number 2(2010)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 98
• Publication Date: 2010-05-17
• Subjects: semantic search -- evaluation benchmarks -- semantic web -- metadata -- ontologies -- logging parameters -- semantics; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Evaluations of semantic search systems are generally small scale and ad hoc due to the lack of appropriate resources such as test collections, agreed performance criteria and independent judgements of performance. By analysing our work in building and evaluating semantic tools over the last five years, we conclude that the growth of the semantic web led to an improvement in the available resources and the consequent robustness of performance assessments. We propose two directions for continuing evaluation work: the development of extensible evaluation benchmarks and the use of logging parameters for evaluating individual components of search systems.