Falcons Concept Search: A Practical Search Engine for Web Ontologies

Web ontologies provide shared concepts for describing domain entities and thus enable semantic interoperability between applications. To facilitate concept sharing and ontology reusing, we developed Falcons Concept Search, a novel keyword-based ontology search engine. In this paper, we illustrate ho...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part A, Systems and humans man and cybernetics. Part A, Systems and humans, 2011-07, Vol.41 (4), p.810-816
Main Authors: Qu, Yuzhong, Cheng, Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Construction
Cybernetics
Feedback
Human
Indexes
Indexing
Interoperability
Keyword search
Ontologies
ontology ranking
ontology search
Resource description framework
Search engines
Searching
Semantics
snippet generation
Usability
virtual document
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Summary:Web ontologies provide shared concepts for describing domain entities and thus enable semantic interoperability between applications. To facilitate concept sharing and ontology reusing, we developed Falcons Concept Search, a novel keyword-based ontology search engine. In this paper, we illustrate how the proposed mode of interaction helps users quickly find ontologies that satisfy their needs and present several supportive techniques including a new method of constructing virtual documents of concepts for keyword search, a popularity-based scheme to rank concepts and ontologies, and a way to generate query-relevant structured snippets. We also report the results of a usability evaluation as well as user feedback.
ISSN:1083-4427
2168-2216
1558-2426
2168-2232
DOI:10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2132705