OntoSeek: content-based access to the Web

Author

Guarino, Nicola ; Masolo, Claudio ; Vetere, Guido

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Council, CNR, Padova, Italy

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1999

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

80

Abstract

For online yellow pages and product catalogs, structured content representations coupled with linguistic ontologies can increase both recall and precision of content based retrieval. Our OntoSeek system adopts a language of limited expressiveness for content representation and uses a large ontology based on WordNet for content matching. WordNet is a linguistic database formed by synsets-terms grouped into semantic equivalence sets, each one assigned to a lexical category (noun, verb, adverb, adjective). Each synset represents a particular sense of an English word and is usually expressed as a unique combination of synonymous words

Keywords

content-based retrieval; information resources; knowledge representation languages; linguistics; text analysis; English word; OntoSeek; WordNet; content based Web access; content based retrieval; content matching; content representation language; large ontology; lexical category; linguistic database; linguistic ontologies; online yellow pages; product catalogs; semantic equivalence sets; structured content representations; synonymous words; synsets; unique combination; Business; Catalogs; Content based retrieval; Costs; Electronic commerce; Encoding; Information retrieval; Manufacturing; Taxonomy; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-7167

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5254.769887

Filename

769887