Knowledge integration in personalised dietary suggestion system using semantic web technologies

Abstract

In knowledge intensive nutrition-related contexts, such as personalised dietary, diet-sensitive diseases management and sport supplementation, ontologies play an important role. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based consultation system which aims to improve the life quality of both healthy people and individuals affected by chronic diet-related diseases. We developed a system which is capable of transferring human dietary and nutrition expertise into machine understandable knowledge through a set of semantic rules in order to better assist users in making the correct nutritional choices for their particular health status, age, lifestyle and food preferences. Our system makes use of open data, published ontologies, domain knowledge and IoT data to construct a domain representation consisting of unified concepts and instances suitable for reasoning processes. We described how several knowledge bases in knowledge-intensive contexts can be integrated to provide a unified structured and precise representation of heterogeneous information to provide better diet recommendation to individuals.