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Searching the Web by Meaning: A Case Study of Lithuanian News Websites

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The daily growth of unstructured textual information created on the Web raises significant challenges when it comes to serving user information needs. On the other hand, evolving Semantic Web technology has influenced a wide body of research towards meaning-based text processing and information retrieval methods, that go beyond classical keyword-driven approaches. However, most of the work in the field targets English as the primary language of interest. Hence, in this paper we present a very first attempt to process unstructured Lithuanian text at the level of ontological semantics. We introduce an ontology-based semantic search framework capable of answering structured natural Lithuanian language questions, discuss its language-dependent design decisions and draw some observations from the results of a recent case study carried out over domain-specific Lithuanian web news corpus.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentu 50, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Tomas Vileiniškis, Algirdas Šukys & Rita Butkienė

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Vileiniškis, T., Šukys, A., Butkienė, R. (2016). Searching the Web by Meaning: A Case Study of Lithuanian News Websites. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J., Aveiro, D., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52758-1_4

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