Ontology-Enhanced Thesaurus : Towards advanced information retrieval for idea creation

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  • MIZOGUCHI Riichiro
    Research Center for Service Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • KOZAKI Kouji
    The Institute of Science and Industrial Research, Osaka University
  • KITAMURA Yoshinobu
    College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

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  • オントロジー強化型シソーラス　工学者のための発想支援型情報検索を目指して
  • オントロジー キョウカガタ シソーラス : コウガクシャ ノ タメ ノ ハッソウ シエンガタ ジョウホウ ケンサク オ メザシテ

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Finding useful information has been known as an old and new problem. It becomes more serious in biomimetics which is a typical interdisciplinary field. Engineers in biomimetics are struggling with finding innovative ways of developing new functions by mimicking those already realized by some organisms. The problem here is engineers are not familiar with biology, and hence it is very hard for them to get useful information about such organisms that might fulfill their needs. This article discusses an advanced thesaurus to help them find such useful information stored in biological databases. It is called Ontology-Enhanced Thesaurus (OET). OET is developed intended to bridge the gap between engineers' needs and biological data by introducing ontology which is a system of abstract and general concepts. OET helps engineers find appropriate keywords for their needs by allowing them to explore the keyword space spanned by the ontology.

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