Speaking Words of WISDOM: Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies
Sonia Bergamaschi, Paolo Bouquet, Paolo Ciaccia, Paolo Merialdo · 2005
Abstract. in this paper we present the architecture of a system for searching and querying information sources available on the web which was developed as part of a project called WISDOM. key feature of our proposal is a distributed architecture based on (i) the peer-to-peer paradigm and (ii) the adoption of domain ontologies. at the lower level, we support a strong, ontology-based integration of the information content of a bunch of source peers, which form a so-called semantic peer. at the upper level, we provide a loose, mapping-based integration of a set of semantic peers. we then show how queries can be efficiently managed and distributed in such a two-layer scenario. 1 introduction the WISDOM (Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies) 1 project aims at studying, developing and experimenting methods and techniques for searching and querying information sources available on the Web. The main goal of the project is the definition of a software framework that allows computer applications to leverage the huge amount of information contents offered by Web sources (typically, as Web