USING ONTOLOGIES TO PROSPECT OFFERS ON THE WEB

Rafael Cunha Cardoso, Fernando da Fonseca de Souza, Ana Carolina Salgado

2005

Abstract

Nowadays, information retrieval and extraction systems perform an important role getting relevant information from the World Wide Web (WWW). Semantic Web, which can be seen as the Web’s future, introduces a set of concepts and tools that are being used to insert “intelligence” into contents of the current WWW. Among such concepts, Ontologies play a fundamental role in this new environment. Through ontologies, software agents can cover the Web “understanding” its meaning in order to execute more complex and useful tasks. This work presents an architecture that uses Semantic Web concepts allied to Regular Expressions (regex) to develop a device that retrieves/extracts specific domain information from the Web (HTML documents). The prototype developed, based on this architecture, gets data about offers announced on supermarkets Web sites, using Ontologies and regex to achieve this goal.

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Cunha Cardoso R., da Fonseca de Souza F. and Carolina Salgado A. (2005). USING ONTOLOGIES TO PROSPECT OFFERS ON THE WEB . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 200-207. DOI: 10.5220/0002555902000207


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Rafael Cunha Cardoso and Fernando da Fonseca de Souza and Ana Carolina Salgado},
title={USING ONTOLOGIES TO PROSPECT OFFERS ON THE WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={200-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002555902000207},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - USING ONTOLOGIES TO PROSPECT OFFERS ON THE WEB
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Cunha Cardoso R.
AU - da Fonseca de Souza F.
AU - Carolina Salgado A.
PY - 2005
SP - 200
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0002555902000207