Tuesday, September 14, 2004

ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine 

ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine"Welcome to the growing home of the ALVIS Consortium. We are building an Open Source searche engine using new technologies.

Motivation: The new economy is based on innovation, and innovation is based on up-to-date information. The semi-static Internet alone has in the order of 1000 million pages of information, and search has become a fundamental service required both by individual citizens and businesses alike. Search facilities have an impact on almost any task related to the information society. Reports indicate that European consumers are dismayed with the US saturation of existing services (as reported by the BBC, May 2, 2002). Moreover, only a few corporations have broad access to rich terabyte repositories of web data that can be used to provide unique value-added services in areas such as shopping, human resources, and business intelligence.

The vast quantity of information sets new challenges for even the best commercial search engines. Building next generation search engines is not just a question of scaling existing techniques. What is needed is a departure from the existing keyword search that has made current search cumbersome even for the skilled. Qualitatively better ways are needed to allow more meaningful, semantically aware queries, and new delivery modes are needed to make search another common resource in the spirit of the web itself, to make search peer to peer. "

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