Swoogle: A Search And Metadata Engine For The Semantic Web

Abstract

Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web. It extracts metadata for each discovered document, and computes relations between documents. Discovered documents are also indexed by an information retrieval system which can use either character N-Gram or URIrefs as keywords to find relevant documents and to compute the similarity among a set of documents. One of the interesting properties we compute is <i>ontology rank</i>, a measure of the importance of a Semantic Web document.