Learning and inferencing in user ontology for personalized Semantic Web search

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2794-2808

  Jiang, Xing ^a   Tan, Ah Hwee ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Domain ontology; Personalization; Semantic Web; Spreading activation theory; User ontology

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; ONTOLOGY MODEL; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PERSONALIZATION; PERSONALIZED INFORMATION; SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB SEARCH; SPREADING ACTIVATION THEORY; TARGET DOMAIN; USE CONCEPT; USER MODELING; USER MODELS; USER ONTOLOGY; USER'S INTEREST; USERS' INTERESTS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 67349119491     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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