Spinque Alignment Service Connected Data event, AmsterdamDecember 2, 2014Wouter Alink, Michiel Hildebrand

We search graphs

Since 2008 we’ve worked on Search by strategy

W. Alink, R. Cornacchia, and A. P. de Vries, Searching CLEF-IP by strategy, in 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Revised Selected Papers, 2010. [pdf]

Example: data in a university

search multiple connected data-sourcesXML, CSV files, API's

... and model it as a graph

Search by Strategy

projects by topic topic expert

Spinque pipeline

Linked Data

Great! now we already have “The Graph”.

Problem solved!

Spinque Linked Data

Spinque ranks RDF

Example - rank restaurants by:- user keywords- inspection results- distance from you- visual strategies built on linked RDF data

- Inspection authority + business registry + health ministry + ...

But, the real world...Thesaurus A

Thesaurus B

Alignment solutions

VU/CWI Research AmalgameHappy alignments are all alike,every unhappy alignment is unhappy in it’s own way

Jacco van Ossenbruggen 2012 (improvisation on Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1887)

Interactive vocabulary alignment Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Michiel Hildebrand, Victor de Boer, TPDL 2011

Manual alignments Automatic alignments

Alignment by strategy

Alignment Strategies

Amalgame strategy = Spinque strategy

Coming soon:

Spinque Alignment Service

made possible by B&G and RCE

Alignment is hardly ever certain.Is this bad?

On the contrary. Search deals with uncertainty.

Hide uncertainty → worse searchUse uncertainty → better search

Alignment & Search

sameAssameAs (0.8)

sameAs (0.1)

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