A semantic approach of rule-based document retrieval for ship survey

The traditional information retrieval techniques can not lead to satisfactory results for the complex relations of the concepts in the rule-based document (RBD) of ship survey. In this research, the framework of semantic RBD retrieval, which is based on ship survey domain ontology (SSDO), was proposed. After the analysis of RBDs, rule sentence templates were offered to represent the pattern, then the similarity measurement algorithm between rule sentences and templates was derived, and an experiment was carried out with five random rule sentences. At last, three more queries of search terms were given to evaluate the accuracy of the approach.