Ontologies have proven to be useful in the area of Information Retrieval and the biomedical
informatics community has acknowledged, in recent years, their utility. However, building …

Background Because of the increasing number of electronic resources, designing efficient
tools to retrieve and exploit them is a major challenge. Some improvements have been …

As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the" right" ontologies becomes much
harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of …

Ontologies are frequently used in information retrieval being their main applications the
expansion of queries, semantic indexing of documents and the organization of search …

Increasing amounts of data volume used on the Web and their heterogeneous character
make the search for information a challenging task. Several advanced computing methods …

With the development of the Semantic Web, ontology has become the crucial means for
representing concepts in various domains of interest. Although the current search engines …

This paper deals with the problem of information retrieval on the Web and present the
CISMeF project (acronym of Catalogue and Index of French-speaking Medical Sites) …

In recent years, technological advances in high-throughput techniques and efficient data
gathering methods, coupled with a world-wide effort in computational biology, have resulted …

The main objective of this work is to automatically build ontology modules that cover search
terms of users in ontology-based question answering on the Web. Indeed, some arising …

An increasing number of recent information retrieval systems make use of ontologies to help
the users clarify their information needs and come up with semantic representations of …