J-P. Fauconnier, J. Roumier. Musonto - A Semantic Search Engine Dedicated to Music and Musicians

1Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine

Jean-Philippe FauconnierJoseph RoumierFabrice Estiévenart

Music Linked Data Workshop @ London | 12 May 2011

Semantic Search EngineDedicated to Music & Musicians

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A. Data schema1. Based on Basic Ontology

= Conceptual representation of knowledge in a given field● Concepts form hierarchical sets● Concepts are linked by semantic relations

Thing

MusicGenre Organisation

Properties abstract stylisticOrigin ...

Person

Band Artist

Hierarchy of Concepts

Properties genre ...

has for Genrehas for Band

Properties band ...

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2. Data comes from● DBpedia's project

3. Data is potentially linked with

● Myspace | Freebase | Flickr | ...

A. Data schema

Search Engine Ontological modeling

For index's creation

User & his/her query

Generated documents

Linked w/ ...

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Band Artist

Music Genre Label

User & his/her query

Scope of the faceted search

B. Search Engine features

Town

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Legacy Full-text Search Rock n roll ; Joe strummer ;Fender ; Deep Purple ; ...

Faceted Search All Artists born in 1958 All Blues Band of 4 membersin the seventies. ...

Internal Navigation All bands from London All bands playing Surf Music All bands signed to Polycord ...

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C. MethodsExtraction of RDF Triplets from Dbpedia Dump

● Use Perl Language to treat Large Data● Selection of relevant features of data● Focusing to Popular music and Artist/bandNo composers, music festivals, albums, songs, ...

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[ ... ]<http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Ventures> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type><http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Band> .[ ... ]

DBpedia Dump

DOCUMENTChamp Id : http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_VenturesChamp Title : « The Ventures »Champ Abstract : « The Ventures are a band ... »Champ CreationDate : 1958Champ NbMembers : 5 ...

Extractionw/ Perl

Document generation

Indexation

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D. Pros & Cons

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Pros● Based on an ontology

Allows faceted search, use of semantic links and internal navigation

● Similarity search and SerendipitousUsers can find documents unrelated to initial research

Cons● High Dependence on Dbpedia Server!

Although the initial search can be operated without Dbpedia,the document generation depends entirely on DBpedia.

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E. Contacts & Examples

2. Contacts● Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Master student, UCLjean-philippe.fauconnier@student.uclouvain.be@jpfauconnier● Joseph Roumier, R&D, CETICjoseph.roumier@cetic.be@jrcetic● Fabrice Estiévenart, R&D, CETICfabrice.estievenart@cetic.be@fab_estievenart

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1. Examples● Try the project @ http://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/

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F. Annexes

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All annexes documents come fromhttp://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/