• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.146-151
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• 2010

For an application of ontology, query processing is mandatory field for efficient information search in the ontology. Other query processing systems tend to analyze only facts and to simply provide structural information for users. In fact, the systems do not have big difference with database systems or text based information processing systems. Therefore, in this research, the method which can provide the inferred information based on axioms is suggested in order to maximize reusability of ontology.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.35-44
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• 2011

Ontologies are playing an important role in semantic web which is emerging as a next stage of the web revolution because various kinds of metadata are described in ontologies. Correspondingly, many query languages like SPARQL, RDQL etc. have been proposed for querying these ontologies. But users have to know the structures and resource names of ontologies completely to get search results even if they have expertise on complex formal logic and syntax of the query languages. Especially, casual users do not know the resource names and may use different words from resource names when they write their query language. This vocabulary gap problem have to be solved to raise the success rate. In this paper, an approach for translating user's search words to corresponding resource names has been proposed. This approach uses semantic similarity between user created search words and ontology resource names.