An Ontology-based Recommendation Agent for Personalized Web Navigation

Ontology is the artifacts for representing the truth or the states of objects by defining objects and their relations. In this paper, we propose an agent that classifies Web documents and provides personalized information towards user`s information needs using ontology. the agent uses ontology in which semantic relations on Web documents are represented in ta hierarchical form to classify Web documents. In this paper, ontology consists of concepts, features(describing concepts), relations(among concepts) and constraints(among elements in a feature). The agent can capture user′s information needs efficiently by using ontology and assist Web navigation by using users profiles and the results of identification of semantic relations in Web documents. Also, the agent obtains Web documents by a look-ahead search and represents them as concepts, therefore users can understand them easily by receiving recommendations expressed in the form of high-level concepts.