Personalized Ontology Construction: A Review Study

Abstract: Personalized ontologies are a conceptualization model that formally describes and specifies user background knowledge. We know that, web users might have different expectations for the same search query. For example, for the topic “New York”, business travellers may have demand for different information from leisure travellers. Same user may have different expectation for the same search query if applied in the different conditions. A user may become a business traveller when planning for a business trip, or a leisure traveller when planning for a family holiday. From this observation an assumption is formed that web users have a personal concepts model for their information needs, a user’s concept model may change according to different information needs. In this paper we study construction of personalized ontology from world knowledge base.

Keywords: World knowledge base, Ontology, Web personalization, Semantic Relations