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Ontology-Based Query Expansion for Supporting Information Retrieval in Agriculture

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The demand for relevant knowledge related to effective and efficient agricultural development has increased tremendously recently in all over the world. The web can be considered as a distributed mass of simple hypertext pages and this gives rise not only to the redundancy of information but also difficulty in managing the relationship among the concepts of information. Thus, a formal way to represent knowledge on agricultural development is crucial. Information related to agricultural development can be represented using ontological modeling that enables the integration of knowledge obtained from heterogeneous sources. Despite this fact, the semantic interpretation of users’ information needs become crucial in retrieval mechanisms. One of the successful techniques used to ensure relevant information is obtained, is to expand the input query by employing the query-related terms derived from the ontology in order to approximate the actual user’s intention. This paper reviews various relevant researches conducted in ontology-based query expansion, particularly in agriculture domain.

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This work has been supported by the Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) project funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Malaysia under Grants No. LRGS/TD/2011/UiTM/ICT/04.

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  1. Center of Excellence in Semantic Agents, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Rayner Alfred, Kim On Chin, Phang Wai San, Tan Li Im, Leow Ching Leong & Gan Kim Soon

  2. Department of Applied Computing, Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Patricia Anthony

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  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

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  2. College of Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

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  3. and Control Faculty of Science, Universidad Salamanca Department of Computing Science, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Alfred, R. et al. (2014). Ontology-Based Query Expansion for Supporting Information Retrieval in Agriculture. In: Uden, L., Wang, L., Corchado Rodríguez, J., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7287-8_24

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