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Motivation – Keyword Search<br />

Querying structured data<br />

• Relational databases<br />

• A repository for a significant amount of data (e.g. enterprise data)<br />

• RDBMS that manages an abstract view of underlying data<br />

• Structured Query Language (SQL)<br />

• Precise and complete<br />

• Difficult for casual users<br />

<strong>Data</strong><br />

Structured<br />

Querying<br />

Precise<br />

Querying unstructured data<br />

• (Web) documents<br />

• Collection of unstructured (natural language) documents available online<br />

• Search engine: The most popular application for information discovery<br />

• Keyword search<br />

• Simple and user-friendly<br />

• Approximating the precise results, in statistical and semantic ways<br />

Easy way of querying<br />

structured data<br />

Unstructured<br />

Easy<br />

© Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner| Do-It-Yourself Analytics on <strong>Open</strong> <strong>Data</strong> 37

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