Using Semantic Web Technologies for
Accessing Semi-structured Information
The search for the right
information and its interpretation in an already existing and
heterogeneous knowledge base is time consuming. To handle this problem
an ontology can be useful. The idea of the proposal is to split the
ontology process into two parts: (i) the human agents select basic
categories from the ontology for the new information input and (ii) the
system selects further categories based on the description of the new
input. In addition, the ontology shall increase while the system
filters, categorises and relates the categories by means of the
description. The motivation is that categories in this area will extend
rapidly. In this context it is not practicable to let human agents
change the ontology, because of different interpretations and meanings
of words.
Keywords: ontology, knowledge base,
tourism
Biography:
Birgit Dippelreiter
studied Information Systems at the Vienna University of Technology.
Since August this year, she works as a project assistant at the
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna
University of Technology. Her research interest is e-commerce,
especially Semantic Web and Ontology.
