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Research on Ontology-Driven Information Retrieval

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (OTM 2006)

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An increasing number of recent information retrieval systems make use of ontologies to help the users clarify their information needs and come up with semantic representations of documents. A particular concern here is the integration of these semantic approaches with traditional search technology. The research presented in this paper examines how ontologies can be efficiently applied to large-scale search systems for the web. We describe how these systems can be enriched with adapted ontologies to provide both an in-depth understanding of the user’s needs as well as an easy integration with standard vector-space retrieval systems. The ontology concepts are adapted to the domain terminology by computing a feature vector for each concept. Later, the feature vectors are used to enrich a provided query. The whole retrieval system is under development as part of a larger Semantic Web standardization project for the Norwegian oil & gas sector.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, NO-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Stein L. Tomassen

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Tomassen, S.L. (2006). Research on Ontology-Driven Information Retrieval. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_50

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