EnglishAn information retrieval system is a linguistic environment that mediates the communication between a stock of information and its requesters. Their efficien-cy depends on an adequate control of representation of the documents and of the requests of its users. In the context of Information Science, thesaurus has established as a very efficient tool in the representa-tion of information. However, ontologies are emerging as a new technology that assist the representation and organization of information and knowledge. This research aims to develop an ontology-based information retrieval model that uses the formal structure of the Vector Space Model. The vectors representing the documents are created during the automatic in-dexing process. From an initial set of terms extracted from the documents there shall be an inference in the ontology in order to enrich the indexing. Similarly, a user's query is also represented by a vector created from a query expansion process through inferences in ontology. Using the proposed model, it was initiated the development of an information retrieval system called OntoSmart, whose partial results point to a significant increase in accuracy of retrieval. portuguesUm sistema de recuperacao de informacao e um ambiente linguistico mediador da comunicacao entre um estoque de informacao e seus requisitantes. Sua eficiencia depende de um controle adequado da representacao dos documentos e das requisicoes de seus usuarios. No contexto da Ciencia da Informacao o tesauro se consolidou como uma ferramenta bas-tante eficiente na representacao da informacao. Po-rem, as ontologias surgem como uma nova tecnolo-gia que auxiliam na representacao e na organizacao da informacao e do conhecimento. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo desenvolver um modelo de recuperacao de informacao baseado em ontologia que utiliza como estrutura formal o Modelo Espaco Vetorial. Os veto-res que representam os documentos sao criados durante o processo de indexacao automatica. A partir de um conjunto inicial de termos extraidos dos docu-mentos, procede-se uma inferencia na ontologia com a finalidade de enriquecer a indexacao. De forma semelhante, a expressao de busca de um usuario e tambem representada por um vetor, criado a partir de um processo de expansao de consulta por meio de inferencias em uma ontologia. Utilizando o modelo proposto, deu-se inicio ao desenvolvimento de um sistema de recuperacao de informacao denominado OntoSmart, cujos resultados parciais apontam para um aumento significativo na precisao da recuperacao.
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