Towards a standard upper ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects
Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects
Modern Information Retrieval
Using Ontologies for Domain Information Retrieval
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A reusable 3D visualization component for the semantic web
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology
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While a variety of search and retrieval paradigms exist, semantic search has become a popular topic of interest for addressing the shortcomings of current technology. Ontology-driven semantic search, in particular, shows promise in increasing speed and accuracy of document indexing and retrieval. The majority of ontological search systems, however, focus primarily on how the ontology can improve classification performance and recall. This paper proposes three additional ways in which ontologies can be used to help users navigate a document space or result set. Using three-dimensional visualization techniques to map the structure of an ontology, a user can quickly see how concepts relate to each other. These same three-dimensional techniques can also be used to map an ontology onto a data or result set and provide a user with a new view of query results far removed from the typical lists of page hits. Furthermore, the view of results can present the user with "near misses" or subclasses of results within results to aid in query refinement.