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Towards a Semantic Search Engine for Open Source Software

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Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness (ICSR 2016)

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To be able to use or reuse an open source software, we must be aware of its existence and find it first. Existing search engines on the Web do not allow finding open source software satisfying given requirements while taking into account special semantics. In this paper, we propose a semantic search system for open source software allowing to identify and localize them. It relies on an ontology providing a mechanism to describe knowledge about open source software. Moreover, it can infer knowledge for semantic identification through some defined rules. Preliminary results are encouraging. The evaluation results compared to a non-semantic version of the same search engine confirm the added value of the consideration of the semantic aspect in search.

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgment to Atef Charef and Raja Lagha for their participation during the elaboration of Se2FLOSS.

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  1. RIADI Laboratory, National School of Computer Sciences, Manouba University, 2010, La Manouba, Tunisia

    Sihem Ben Sassi

  2. High Institute of Telecommunication, Technoparc ElGhazala, 2083, Ariana, Tunisia

    Sihem Ben Sassi

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    Eduardo Santana de Almeida

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Ben Sassi, S. (2016). Towards a Semantic Search Engine for Open Source Software. In: Kapitsaki, G., Santana de Almeida, E. (eds) Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9679. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35122-3_20

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