cs.IR · 2026-05-28 · No. 11

Information Retrieval, 2026-05-28.

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    Do Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval

    Shiyu Chen, Tarfah Alrashed, Alon Halevy, Natasha Noy

    cs.IR · cs.AI

    In the era of autonomous agents, machine-actionable data is critical for data-driven workflows. For more than a decade, semantic metadata like schema.org has anchored the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) for machine-actionable data and enabled discovery tools like Google Dataset Search. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of navigating the unstructured web raises a fundamental question:...

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.28787 · PDF

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