Documentation
Gentle Introduction
Check out the SIREn presentation to get the core concepts behind SIREn.
Getting Started
To begin with SIREn, you can start by downloading the source code and compiling it on your computer. Then, you can start feeding SIREn with semi-structured data. Learn more by reading the short tutorial.
Examples
- Indexing and searching plain N-Triples documents ->
- Entity centric indexing and searching ->
- Indexing and searching tabular data (IMDB) ->
API Docs
- SIREn 0.2.0 Java Documentation
- SIREn 0.1 Java Documentation
Developer FAQ
Answers to common questions
Benchmarks
- Benchmarks and Evaluation of the performance of various aspects of SIREn
- Regression Test Benchmarks about specific parts of SIREn
Publications
- R. Delbru, S. Campinas, G. Tummarello. Searching Web Data: an Entity Retrieval and High-Performance Indexing Model. In Journal of Web Semantics. 2011.
- Renaud Delbru. Searching Web Data: an Entity Retrieval Model. Ph.D Thesis at Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. September 2010. [slides] [video]
- R. Delbru, N. Toupikov, M. Catasta, G. Tummarello. A Node Indexing Scheme for Web Entity Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). 2010.