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Search engines, as we know them nowadays, accept the input of keywords and generate as output a list of links towards documents that contain those keywords. The quality of these results is determined mainly by the classification they make of those lists. (Google is one of the best). The semantic browser we present has two principal advantages compared with the traditional search engine
1. It accepts searches written in Plain Language (Spanish at present).
2. The result is the fragment of information we desire, and not a list of documents that may, (or may not) contain the requested information.
The semantic browser, therefore, reduces any information overload. It takes care of some of the most unpopular tasks at present in information searches: The opening of each document in the list of results and scanning it manually in search of desired information. Therefore semantic browsers have the potential to revolutionise the way that we look for digital information: It changes the paradigm of the search from “finding documents” to "answering questions”.
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