TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-faceted approach for searching web applications
AU - Usanavasin, Sasiporn
AU - Nakamori, Takahiro
AU - Takada, Shingo
AU - Doi, Norihisa
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - The WWW today contains not only a tremendous amount of information but also a variety of Web applications, such as online shopping. Searching for such applications can be difficult and time consuming because current keyword-based search do not always deliver results that match the user's intention. The key underlying problem is that keywords do not capture the semantics of the user's query and the functional capabilities of Web applications. This paper presents a multi-faceted approach for searching Web applications. In our approach, the search process is based on various facets, such as service functionality, item (product), result type, inputs/outputs, and the detailed information of items. It is based on matching queries and Web application profiles that are described in DAML-S. The matching process is augmented with the use of ontologies. The result of applying our approach to a set of Web applications resulted in a precision of 93% and a recall of 98%.
AB - The WWW today contains not only a tremendous amount of information but also a variety of Web applications, such as online shopping. Searching for such applications can be difficult and time consuming because current keyword-based search do not always deliver results that match the user's intention. The key underlying problem is that keywords do not capture the semantics of the user's query and the functional capabilities of Web applications. This paper presents a multi-faceted approach for searching Web applications. In our approach, the search process is based on various facets, such as service functionality, item (product), result type, inputs/outputs, and the detailed information of items. It is based on matching queries and Web application profiles that are described in DAML-S. The matching process is augmented with the use of ontologies. The result of applying our approach to a set of Web applications resulted in a precision of 93% and a recall of 98%.
KW - DAML-S facet
KW - Semantic Web
KW - Web Application Discovery
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1542433867
SN - 0889863962
T3 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing
SP - 247
EP - 252
BT - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing
A2 - Chu, W.
A2 - Chu, W.
T2 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing
Y2 - 17 November 2003 through 19 November 2003
ER -