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Ontology-based interpretation of keywords for semantic search

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Thanh Tran,

Philipp Cimiano,

Sebastian Rudolph,

Rudi StuderAuthors Info & Claims

ISWC'07/ASWC'07: Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference

Pages 523 - 536

Published: 11 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Current information retrieval (IR) approaches do not formally capture the explicit meaning of a keyword query but provide a comfortable way for the user to specify information needs on the basis of keywords. Ontology-based approaches allow for sophisticated semantic search but impose a query syntax more difficult to handle. In this paper, we present an approach for translating keyword queries to DL conjunctive queries using background knowledge available in ontologies. We present an implementation which shows that this interpretation of keywords can then be used for both exploration of asserted knowledge and for a semantics-based declarative query answering process. We also present an evaluation of our system and a discussion of the limitations of the approach with respect to our underlying assumptions which directly points to issues for future work.

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ISWC'07/ASWC'07: Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference

November 2007

973 pages

ISBN:3540762973

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Karl Aberer
EPFL, Switzerland
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EPFL, Switzerland
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Key-Sun Choi
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
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Natasha Noy
Stanford University
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Dean Allemang
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Kyung-Il Lee
Saltlux Inc., Korea
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Free University Berlin, Germany
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University of Maryland
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Peter Mika
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
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Diana Maynard
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