(Visual) Exploratory Search

Adaptive search interfaces which allow the real-time navigation through multimodal continuously updating linked data graphs are what is needed to make the huge amount of Big Data to be consumable by humans. IDLab has expertise in designing these interfaces but also the technologies under the hood such as search engines, semantic similarity measures, path finding techniques and recommendation systems which present the most relevant information the the end-user or to automatically generate relevant stories based on the data.

Staff

Erik Mannens, Ruben Verborgh, Tom De Nies

Researchers

Dörthe Arndt, Pieter Colpaert, Ben De Meester, Dieter De Paepe, Laurens De Vocht, Dieter De Witte, Anastasia Dimou, Gerald Haesendonck, Pieter Heyvaert, Frank Salliau, Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Martin Vanbrabant, Miel Vander Sande.

Projects

COMBUST (iMinds ICON): Large-scale integration and veracity enhancement of business data through data lifting with RML, publishing with LDF, and provenance-based trust assessment

HOBBIT (H2020 IA): Holistic benchmarking of Big & Linked Data approaches

SEQUEL (VLAIO R&D): Semantic Federated Query Engine for HealthCare, Life Sciences and Beyond

EWI (Bila): Large Scale graph visualization platform on top of Linked Open Data.

FACTS4WORKERS (H2020 IA): Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories

Key publications

De Nies, T. 2016. “Enabling Automatic Provenance-based Trust Assessment of Web Content”. Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. PhD thesis

Heyvaert, P., Anastasia, D., Herregodts, A., Verborgh, R., Schuurman, D., Mannens, E., and Van de Walle, R. 2016. “RMLEditor: a Graph-based Mapping Editor for Linked Data Mappings.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9678:709–723. CHAM: SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG.

Dimou, A., Kontokostas, D., Freudenberg, M., Verborgh, R., Lehmann, J., Mannens, E., Hellmann, S., and Van de Walle, R.. 2015. “Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9367:133–149. CHAM: SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG.

Verborgh, R., Vander Sande, M., Hartig, O., Van Herwegen, J., De Vocht, L., De Meester, B., Haesendonck, G., Colpaert, P., 2016. Triple Pattern Fragments: a Low-cost Knowledge Graph Interface for the Web. Journal of Web Semantics 37–38, 184–206. doi:doi:10.1016/j.websem.2016.03.003

De Vocht, L., Softic, S., Verborgh, R., Mannens, E., Ebner, M., 2017. ResXplorer: Revealing Relations between Resources for Researchers in the Web of Data. Computer Science and Information Systems (scheduled to be published January 2017).

Vander Sande, M., Verborgh, R., Dimou, A., Colpaert, P., Mannens, E., 2016. Hypermedia-based Discovery for Source Selection using Low-Cost Linked Data Interfaces. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 12, 79–110.

Verborgh, R., Arndt, D., Van Hoecke, S., De Roo, J., Mels, G., Steiner, T., Gabarró Vallés, J., 2016. The Pragmatic Proof: Hypermedia api Composition and Execution. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.