Ontology Based Automatic Attributes Extracting and Queries Translating for Deep Web

Abstract

Search engines and web crawlers can not access the Deep Web directly. The workable way to access the hidden database is through query interfaces. Automatic extracting attributes from query interfaces and translating queries is a solvable way for addressing the current limitations in accessing Deep Web. However, the query interface provides semantic constraints, some attributes are co-occurred and the others are exclusive sometimes. To generate a valid query, we have to reconcile the key attributes and semantic relation between them. We design a framework to automatically extract attributes from query interfaces taking full advantage of instances information and enrich the attribute sets embedded in the semantic query interface by Ontology technique. Each attribute is extended into a candidate attribute expressed by a hierarchy tree and describes the semantic relation of the attributes. We carry out our experiments in the real-world domain and results showed the validation of query translation framework.