Towards Semantic Web Documents Retrieval through Ontology Mapping: Preliminary Results

The development of the Semantic Web has led to the proposal of several solutions concerning the retrieval of Semantic Web Documents (SWDs). However, current solutions presuppose that the query is given in a structured way using a formal language and provide no advanced means for the (semantic) alignment of the query to the contents of the Semantic Web Documents. As a consequence, many of the Web users can not take advantage of the semantic retrieval services provided, given their inability to express formal queries and/or their divergent conceptualizations of a domain. In this paper, we report on preliminary experiments towards an approach to SWDs retrieval that aims to support users to form semantic queries – requiring no knowledge and skills for expressing queries in a formal language and to retrieve SWDs whose content is similar to the queries formed.