A Semantic Search Engine could be described as an agent that allows users to search at the topic level. Once a topic of interest is identified, then drill down to the specific document. Semantics is been applied these days by search engines in a few closely related fields. A possible way, is by using statistical analysis to retrieve semantic matches to a query. With this approach, they are capable of providing relational results based on the topics and keywords given by the user.

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