A semi-structured information space consists of multiple collections of textual documents containing fielded or tagged sections. The space can be highly heterogeneous, because eac...
Ontology-driven search applications use ontological concepts either to index documents or to guide and understand the users. Since ontologies by nature are domain-dependent and app...
: Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the socalled "information need". But the need behind a web search is oft...
: The Web is huge, unstructured and diverse in quality, which makes searching for information difficult. In practice, few of the documents returned by a search engine are valuable ...
Hierarchical categorization is a powerful and convenient method so that it is commonly used in various areas, such as ontologies. Although each hierarchy is useful, there are probl...