USING ONTOLOGY TO ORDER RECORDS BY RELEVANCE

摘要

A method for retrieving records in an order of relevance based on a pre-defined domain ontology. The relevance of each result of the search conducted is decided on the basis of the pre-defined domain ontology. The method includes obtaining a search query as an input from the user containing one or more than one phrases. Then, the set of results from the given set of records is retrieved based on the input search query. The method further includes calculating and assigning a closeness parameter corresponding to each result of the set of results based on the domain ontology. Finally, the set of results is displayed in an order of relevance by sorting in an ascending order the closeness parameter of each of the record present in the set of results.