Possibly imperfect ontologies for effective information retrieval

Ontologies and semantic metadata can theoretically solve all problems of traditional full-text search engines. In practice, however, they are always imperfect. This work analyzed whether the negative effect of ontology imperfection is higher than the positive effect of exploiting the ontology featur...

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Main Author: Nagypál, Gábor (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2007
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Summary:Ontologies and semantic metadata can theoretically solve all problems of traditional full-text search engines. In practice, however, they are always imperfect. This work analyzed whether the negative effect of ontology imperfection is higher than the positive effect of exploiting the ontology features for IR. To answer this question, a complete ontology-based information retrieval system was implemented and thoroughly evaluated.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (XIV, 272 p. p.)
ISBN:KSP/1000007206
9783866441903
Access:Open Access