A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management

A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management

http://www.semanticdesktop.org/SemanticDesktopWS2005/final/32_xiaocruz_multiontology_final.pdf

by Huiyong Xiao, Isabel F. Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Abstract: The increasingly huge volume of personal information stored in a desktop computer is characterized by disparate models, unstructured contents, and implicit knowledge. Aiming at a semantic rich environment, a number of Semantic Desktop frameworks have been proposed, concentrating on different aspects, including organization, manipulation, and visualization of the data. In this paper, we propose a layered and semantic ontology-based framework for personal information management, and we discuss its annotations, associations, and navigation. We also discuss query processing in two cases: query rewriting in a single personal information application, PIA, and that between two PIAs.