Fuzzy-Ontology-Enrichment-based Framework for Semantic Search

Hajer Baazaoui-Zghal, Henda Ben Ghezala

2014

Abstract

The dominance of information retrieval on the Web makes integrating and designing ontologies for the on-line Information Retrieval Systems (IRS) an attractive research area. In addition to domain ontology, some attempts have been recently made to integrate fuzzy set theory with ontology, to provide a solution to vague and uncertain information. This paper presents a framework for semantic search based on ontology enrichment and fuzziness (FuzzOntoEnrichIR). FuzzOntoEnrichIR main components are: (1) a fuzzy information retrieval component, (2) an incremental ontology enrichment component and (3) an ontology repository component. The framework aims on the one hand to capitalize and formulate extraction-ontology rules based on a meta-ontology. On the other hand, it aims to integrate the domain ontology enrichment and the fuzzy ontology building in the IR process. The framework has been implemented and experimented to demonstrate the effectiveness and validity of the proposal.

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Baazaoui-Zghal H. and Ben Ghezala H. (2014). Fuzzy-Ontology-Enrichment-based Framework for Semantic Search . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-024-6, pages 123-130. DOI: 10.5220/0004923801230130


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@conference{webist14,
author={Hajer Baazaoui-Zghal and Henda Ben Ghezala},
title={Fuzzy-Ontology-Enrichment-based Framework for Semantic Search},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={123-130},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004923801230130},
isbn={978-989-758-024-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - Fuzzy-Ontology-Enrichment-based Framework for Semantic Search
SN - 978-989-758-024-6
AU - Baazaoui-Zghal H.
AU - Ben Ghezala H.
PY - 2014
SP - 123
EP - 130
DO - 10.5220/0004923801230130