General Approach of Buster

The general approach of BUSTER (Bremen University Semantic Translator for Enhanced Retrieval) follows the hybrid ontology approach described in section 2. This means that the overall architecture is based on annotated information sources, which are linked or can be found with an ontology-based retrieval mechanism. BUSTER can be looked at as a middleware, which can be used by various applications such as e-commerce programs, GIS-applications etc. It provides two subsystems, one acts as intelligent search engine, the other can be used for information integration or semantic translation. This general approach has been also discussed in [127,133,129,130,141,132,110].