Concept-based search and questionnaire systems

Abstract

World Wide Web search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN have become the most heavily-used online services (including the targeted advertising), with millions of searches performed each day on unstructured sites. In this presentation, we would like to go beyond the traditional web search engines that are based on keyword search and the Semantic Web which provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application. For this reason, our view is that “Before one can use the power of web search the relevant information has to be mined through the concept-based search mechanism and logical reasoning with capability to Q&A representation rather than simple keyword search”. In this paper, we will first present the state of the search engines. Then we will focus on development of a framework for reasoning and deduction in the web. A new web search model will be presented. One of the main core ideas that we will use to extend our technique is to change terms-documents-concepts (TDC) matrix into a rule-based and graph-based representation. This will allow us to evolve the traditional search engine (keyword-based search) into a concept-based search and then into Q&A model. Given TDC, we will transform each document into a rule-based model including it’s equivalent graph model. Once the TDC matrix has been transformed into maximally compact concept based on graph representation and rules based on possibilistic relational universal fuzzy-type II (pertaining to composition), one can use Z(n)-compact algorithm and transform the TDC into a decision-tree and hierarchical graph that will represents a Q&A model. Finally, the concept of semantic equivalence and semantic entailment based on possibilistic relational universal fuzzy will be used as a basis for question-answering (Q&A) and inference from fuzzy premises. This will provide a foundation for approximate reasoning, language for representation of imprecise knowledge, a meaning representation language for natural languages, precisiation of fuzzy propositions expressed in a natural language, and as a tool for Precisiated Natural Language (PNL) and precisation of meaning. The maximally compact documents based on Z(n)-compact algorithm and possibilistic relational universal fuzzy-type II will be used to cluster the documents based on concept-based query-based search criteria.