Semantic matchmaking and ranking: beyond deduction in retrieval scenarios

  • Authors:
  • Tommaso Di Noia

  • Affiliations:
  • SisInf Lab --- DEE, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • RR'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Matchmaking can be basically seen as the process of computing a ranked list of resources with respect to a given query. Semanticmatchmaking can be hence described as the process of computing such ordered list also taking into account the semantics of resources description and of the query, provided with reference to a logic theory (an ontology, a set of rules, etc.) [3]. A matchmaking step is fundamental in a number of retrieval scenarios spanning from (Web) service discovery and composition to e-commerce transactions up to recruitment in human resource management for task assignment, just to cite a few of them. Also in interactive exploratory tasks, matchmaking and ranking play a fundamental role in the selection of relevant resources to be presented to the user and, in case, further explored. In all the above mentioned frameworks, the user query may contain only hard (strict) requirements or may represent also her preferences. We will see how to handle both cases while computing the ranked list of most promising resources.