Possibly imperfect ontologies for effective information retrieval

• Main Author: Nagypál, Gábor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2007
• Subjects: Fuzzy Menge; automatic metadata generation; Ontologie <Wissensverarbeitung>; fuzzy set; probability theory; Information-Retrieval-System; Generierung; Unvollkommenheit; possibility theory; Metadaten; Semantic Web; automatische Metadatengenerierung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Information Retrieval; imperfection; ontology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ontologies and semantic metadata can theoretically solve all problems of traditional full-text search engines. In practice, however, they are always imperfect. This work analyzed whether the negative effect of ontology imperfection is higher than the positive effect of exploiting the ontology featur...