Extracting semantic constraint from description text for semantic web service discovery

Abstract

Various semantic web service discovery techniques have been proposed, many of which perform the profile based service signature (I/O) matching. However, the service I/O concepts are not sufficient to discover web services accurately. This paper presents a new method to enhance the semantic description of semantic web service by using the semantic constraints of service I/O concepts in specific context. The semantic constraints described in a constraint graph are extracted automatically from the parsing results of the service description text by a set of heuristic rules. The corresponding semantic web service matchmaker performs not only the profile's semantic matching but also the matching of their semantic constraints with the help of a constraint graph based matchmaking algorithm. The experiment results are encouraging when applying the semantic constraint to discover semantic web services on the service retrieval test collection OWLS-TC v2. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.