Semantic flooding: Semantic search across distributed lightweight ontologies

Classifications are trees where links between nodes codify the fact that a node lower in the hierarchy describes a topic (and contains documents about this topic) which is more specific than the topic of the node one level above. In turn, multiple classifications can be connected by semantic links w...

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Published in:World wide web (Bussum) 2011-10, Vol.14 (5-6), p.651-669
Main Authors: Giunchiglia, Fausto, Kharkevich, Uladzimir, Hume, Alethia
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computer Science
Database Management
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Operating Systems
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Summary:Classifications are trees where links between nodes codify the fact that a node lower in the hierarchy describes a topic (and contains documents about this topic) which is more specific than the topic of the node one level above. In turn, multiple classifications can be connected by semantic links which represent mappings among them and which can be computed, e.g. by ontology matching. In this paper, we describe how these two types of links can be used to define a semantic overlay network which can cover any number of peers and which can be flooded to perform a semantic search on documents, i.e. to perform semantic flooding . We have evaluated our approach by simulating networks of 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 peers containing classifications which are fragments of the DMoz web directory. The results are promising and show that, in our approach, only a relatively small number of peers needs to be queried in order to achieve high accuracy.
ISSN:1386-145X
1573-1413
DOI:10.1007/s11280-010-0108-y