Efficient Retrieval of Data Using Semantic Search Engine Based on NLP and RDF

Authors

  • Usha Yadav National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9332-7552
  • Neelam Duhan J.C. Bose University of Science & Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2084

Keywords:

Domain Ontology, Semantic Search Engine, SPARQL, Natural Language Processing, RDF

Abstract

With the evolution of Web 3.0, the traditional algorithm of searching Web 2.0 would become obsolete and underperform in retrieving the precise and accurate information from the growing semantic web. It is very reasonable to presume that common users might not possess any understanding of the ontology used in the knowledge base or SPARQL query. Therefore, providing easy access of this enormous knowledge base to all level of users is challenging. The ability for all level of users to effortlessly formulate structure query such as SPARQL is very diverse. In this paper, semantic web based search methodology is proposed which converts user query in natural language into SPARQL query, which could be directed to domain ontology based knowledge base. Each query word is further mapped to the relevant concept or relations in ontology. Score is assigned to each mapping to find out the best possible mapping for the query generation. Mapping with highest score are taken into consideration along with interrogative or other function to finally formulate the user query into SPARQL query. If there is no search result retrieved from the knowledge base, then instead of returning null to the user, the query is further directed to the Web 3.0. The top “k” documents are considered to further converting them into RDF format using Text2Onto tool and the corpus of semantically structured web documents is build. Alongside, semantic crawl agent is used to get <Subject-Predicate-Object> set from the semantic wiki. The Term Frequency Matrix and Co-occurrence Matrix are applied on the corpus following by singular Value decomposition (SVD) to find the results relevant for the user query. The result evaluations proved that the proposed system is efficient in terms of execution time, precision, recall and f-measures.

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Author Biographies

Usha Yadav, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur, India

Usha Yadav is presently working as an Assistant Professor in National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur, India and has more than 7 years of working experience. She is also pursuing Ph.D. from J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India. She received her B.E. in Information Technology in 2009 and M.Tech. in Computer Engineering in 2011. She has published more than 11 research papers in reputed journals and conferences indexed with SCIE, SCOPUS etc. Her areas of interest are semantic web, information retrieval, AR VR, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things.

Neelam Duhan, J.C. Bose University of Science & Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India

Neelam Duhan has an academic work experience of 17 years and currently working as an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering Department at J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad. She received her B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, M.Tech. in Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2002, 2005 and 2011 respectively. She has successfully guided three Ph.Ds and is currently guiding four Ph.D. scholars in the areas of machine learning, semantic web and social networks. She has guided more than 30 M.Tech dissertations. She has published more than 75 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. Her areas of interest are databases, data analytics, information retrieval and web mining.

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Published

2021-11-19

How to Cite

Yadav, U., & Duhan, N. (2021). Efficient Retrieval of Data Using Semantic Search Engine Based on NLP and RDF. Journal of Web Engineering, 20(8), 2285–2318. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2084

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