A Framework for Modelling Real-World Knowledge Capable of Obtaining Answers to Fuzzy and Flexible Searches

摘要

The Internet has become a place where massive amounts of information and data are being generated every day. This information is most of the times stored in a non-structured way, but the times it is structured in databases it cannot be retrieved by using easy fuzzy queries: we need human intervention to determine how the non-fuzzy information stored needs to be combined and processed to answer a fuzzy query. We present a web interface for posing fuzzy and flexible queries and a framework. Our framework allows to represent non-fuzzy concepts, fuzzy concepts and relations between them, giving the programmer the capability to model any real-world knowledge. It is this representation in the framework's language what it uses to (1) determine how to answer the query without any human intervention and (2) provide the search engine with the information it needs to present the user a friendly and easy to use query form. We expect this work contributes to the development of more human-oriented fuzzy search engines.