With the emergence and development of semantic web, traditional archive service meets a new challenge to provide more intelligent and interactive services for web users. To take good advantage of semantic web technologies, in particular ontology and semantic inference, this paper proposes a semantic search portal for cross-media cultural archives involving document, image, audio and video. With...

Semantic networks have been used extensively in psychology to describe how humans organize facts and knowledge in memory. Numerous methods have been proposed to construct semantic networks using data from memory retrieval tasks, such as the semantic fluency task (listing items in a category). However these methods typically generate group-level networks, and sometimes require a very large amoun...

Semantic search attempts to go beyond the current state of the art in information access by addressing information needs on the semantic level, i.e. considering the meaning of users’ queries and the available resources. In recent years, there have been significant advances in developing and applying semantic technologies to the problem of semantic search. To collate these various approaches and...

in addition to the multimedia content repository, the module assumes the existence of a domain knowledge base (KB) described by a domain ontology, and the availability of annotations of the content by KB entities. one of the fundamental novel features provided by the module is a ranking algorithm integrating the classic iR view of the notion of relevance and approximate search results, with the...