Publication Date
2007
Document Type
Dissertation
Committee Members
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Advisor)
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Abstract
The Semantic Web has been evolving into a property-linked web of RDF data, conceptually divorced from (but physically housed in) the World Wide Web of hyperlinked documents. Data Retrieval techniques are typically used to retrieve data from the Semantic Web while Information Retrieval techniques are used to retrieve documents from the Hypertext Web. Conceptually unifying the two webs enables the exploitation of their interconnections resulting in benefits to both data and document retrieval. Towards this end, we present the Unified Web model that integrates the two webs and formalizes the structure and the semantics of their interconnections. We present a hybrid approach to retrieving data and documents that is enabled by this unification. We specify the Hybrid Query Language that embodies the approach and the system SITAR that implements it.
Page Count
104
Department or Program
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Year Degree Awarded
2008
Copyright
Copyright 2007, all rights reserved. This open access ETD is published by Wright State University and OhioLINK.
