Exploiting text-rich descriptions for faceted discovery of web resources
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Abstract
Open metadata registries are a fundamental tool for researchers in the Life Sciences trying to locate resources such as web services or databases. While sophisticated standards have been produced for annotating these resources with rich, well-structured metadata, evidence shows that in open registries a majority of annotations simply consists of informal free text descriptions. This reality must be taken into account in order to develop effective techniques for resource discovery in the Life Sciences.
In this work we propose a method for resource discovery which is able to exploit such textual descriptions to find relevant resources. It is a requirement-driven approach, in which the user specifies informational needs as a target task and a set of facets of interest, expressed using free text.
We have conducted several experiments on resources extracted from the BioCatalogue registry. For a sample set of queries that reflect common Bioinformatics-related research questions, the results show that our method is effective and provides useful answers.
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