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Knowledge elicitation for query refinement in a semantic-enabled e-marketplace

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In this paper we present a knowledge-based approach to the elicitation of information from advertisements, in the framework of a semantic-enabled marketplace. The elicited information can be used for advertisements enriching and refining, without requiring users thorough knowledge of the domain, and to determine a logicbased exact match. The approach exploits non-standard inference services in Description Logics, namely Abduction and Contraction, to tackle a typical problem of semantic-enabled marketplaces, that is the difficulty the average or casual user has in exploiting all the knowledge expressed in an e-commerce domain, which appears necessary to issue requests. We present an algorithm, which returns the set of concepts not included in the request-that can be used for query refinement- and more interesting what is still missing for each available supply, to obtain an exact, bidirectional, match.

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ICEC '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce
August 2005
957 pages
ISBN:1595931120
DOI:10.1145/1089551
  • Conference Chairs:
  • Qi Li,
  • Ting-Peng Liang
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  1. concept abduction
  2. concept contraction
  3. description logics
  4. e-commerce
  5. knowledge management
  6. matchmaking
  7. semantic web

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