The DERI Sindice Team is the winner of the Yahoo Semantic Search Challenge 2011. The Semantic Search Challenge, now in its second edition, called for participants to answer 
keyword queries describing “entities” and return results from “web databases” having a very heterogeneous nature. The results have been discussed at the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Search, co-located with the World Wide Web Conference 2011 in Hyderabad, India.
This year’s competition consists of two tracks. The first “Entity Search track” consists of queries that refer to one particular entity. The second “List Search Track” consists of complex queries with multiple possible answers. The Sindice team is the winner of the “Entity Search Track”, and was awarded a cash prize and a publication of the description of their work as part of the workshop proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library.
Sindice.com is the world’s most comprehensive Web of Data Search engine. With more than 200 million of semantically enriched pages indexed, it is used on a daily basis by a community of researchers and advanced web developers working on the “Web of Data”, the “Web seen as a Database of facts” collectively created by hundreds of thousands of websites which use metadata standards to markup the content they want to expose for advanced indexing and integration.
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