Formulation Of E-Content Search Approach Using Thesaurus Based Ontology For Engineering Education Environment

Abstract

With the advancement of technology and digitization of educational resources there is a plethora of information available on the world wide web. Many a times the search process does not yield the desired relevant results against the query posed by the user. In academic and technical context, the user is unable to retrieve domain specific relevant content because of vocabulary mismatch, lack of semantic understanding, and insufficient contextual information in search systems. In order to address these limitations, the present paper has leveraged the capabilities of a technical thesaurus using ontological engineering to expand the query terms along with the capabilities of NLP techniques to refine and reformulated the user queries in engineering education environment. The active role of users in the evaluation process has helped to achieve the relevant, diverse and user-satisfactory results.