A Bayesian Approach for Weighted Ontologies and Semantic Search

Anna Formica, Michele Missikoff, Elaheh Pourabbas, Francesco Taglino

2016

Abstract

Semantic similarity search is one of the most promising methods for improving the performance of retrieval systems. This paper presents a new probabilistic method for ontology weighting based on a Bayesian approach. In particular, this work addresses the semantic search method SemSim for evaluating the similarity among a user request and semantically annotated sources. Each resource is annotated with a vector of features (annotation vector), i.e., a set of concepts defined in a reference ontology. Analogously, a user request is represented by a collection of desired features. The paper shows, on the bases of a comparative study, that the adoption of the Bayesian weighting method improves the performance of the SemSim method.

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Formica A., Missikoff M., Pourabbas E. and Taglino F. (2016). A Bayesian Approach for Weighted Ontologies and Semantic Search . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-203-5, pages 171-178. DOI: 10.5220/0006073301710178


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@conference{keod16,
author={Anna Formica and Michele Missikoff and Elaheh Pourabbas and Francesco Taglino},
title={A Bayesian Approach for Weighted Ontologies and Semantic Search},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={171-178},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006073301710178},
isbn={978-989-758-203-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2016)
TI - A Bayesian Approach for Weighted Ontologies and Semantic Search
SN - 978-989-758-203-5
AU - Formica A.
AU - Missikoff M.
AU - Pourabbas E.
AU - Taglino F.
PY - 2016
SP - 171
EP - 178
DO - 10.5220/0006073301710178