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A Vocabulary Building Mechanism Based on Lexical Semantics for Querying the Semantic Web

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

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This paper describes a new framework consisting of two mechanisms: one for building a rich vocabulary based on a lexical semantics, and the other for evaluating queries using such a vocabulary. A vocabulary built by the former mechanism has the following two features: (a) richness because of its expandability, and (b) the lexical-semantic definability of its words. Query expressions using such a rich vocabulary satisfy the following two properties: (c) no need to use nested queries, and (d) no need to use variables. In our framework, each vocabulary consists of basic words and derived words. A derived word can be defined as a character string label given to an expression that combines already defined words with operators. When someone defines a large vocabulary with all of its basic words being mapped to an ontology of the underlying Semantic Web, users can query this Semantic Web using this vocabulary.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University,  

    Yu Asano & Yuzuru Tanaka

  2. Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Sapporo, Japan

    Yuzuru Tanaka

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  1. School of Engineering, The Parade, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157, St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, ,, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Asano, Y., Tanaka, Y. (2010). A Vocabulary Building Mechanism Based on Lexical Semantics for Querying the Semantic Web. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15387-7_68

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