Efficient Semantic Search Using Microformats

Abstract

Increasing information on internet has made difficult for users to find relevant information on Web. Querying search engine returns thousands of results, most of them irrelevant. The core problem is broken, unlinked web. There is a need for structured web with semantic search engines understanding the information and resources on it; returning few but relevant results. RDF/XML, OWL and Microformats are the popular new technologies in use for describing information and resources on the web. Out of these microformats is chosen in this thesis for efficient semantic search. A website is specially designed as a part of thesis work embedded with microformats semantic markup. A search engine is also created to query this website. Efficiency of the semantic search engine is being verified via test cases designed for this purpose; which are made to run on our microformats based search engine and regular search engines such as Google and/or Yahoo/Bing etc.