An Ontology Based Visual Tool for Query Formulation Support

نویسندگان

  • Tiziana Catarci
  • Paolo Dongilli
  • Tania Di Mascio
  • Enrico Franconi
  • Giuseppe Santucci
  • Sergio Tessaris
چکیده

The SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project aims at enabling a uniform access to heterogeneous data sources through an integrated ontology. The overall project development strictly follows a user-centred design methodology. Users have been involved from the very beginning and are constantly participating in the design and testing of the system, in order to obtain a first example of visual interface user-dedicated for an ontology-based search engine. In this paper we describe the end-user interface component for query composition. We will describe the user-centred design of the interface, the underlying logic based technologies, and the formal principles of support and interaction. A full worked out example is included in the paper.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003