OntoPortal: An ontology-supported portal architecture with linguistically enhanced and focused crawler technologies

Abstract This paper proposed the techniques of ontology and linguistics to develop a fully-automatic annotation technique, coupling with an automatic ontology construction method, could play a key role in the development of Semantic Portals. An ontology-supported portal architecture: OntoPortal was proposed according to this technique, in which three internal components Portal Interface, Semantic Portal, and OntoCrawler was integrated to rapidly and precisely collect information on Internet and capture true user’s intention and accordingly provide high-quality query answers to meet the user requests. This paper also demonstrated the OntoPortal prototype which defined how a semantic portal is interacting with the user by providing five different types of interaction patterns such as including keyword search, synonym search, POS (Part-of-Speech)-constrained keyword search, natural language query, and semantic index search. The preliminary experiment outcomes proved the technology proposed in this paper to be able to really up-rise the precision and recall rates of webpage searching and accordingly showed that it can indeed retrieve better semantic-directed information to meet user requests.