An ontology-driven approach for semantic information retrieval on the Web

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Rinaldi, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ontologies; Semantic relatedness metrics; Word Net

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DOCUMENTS; DIRECTORY SERVICE; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION NEED; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; SEMANTIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS METRICS; TEST SETS; USER'S INTEREST; WORD NET;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; METRIC SYSTEM; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 69149101349     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1552291.1552293     Document Type: Article

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