Development of Ontology Information Retrieval System for Novice Researchers in Malaysia

Abstract

This research describes the development of an online thesis database system to assist novice researchers in a Malaysian university to identify research topics in local language context. Two major problems have been identified in the current system of keyword search. Firstly, student’s lack of experience in querying often results in irrelevant search outcomes. Secondly, language barrier limits students’ abilities to conduct keyword search in bilingual language context. A semantic search approach that applies ontology-based search is proposed. This paper presents system framework design, its ontological development and sample queries are also presented to demonstrate how the system works