@article{245, author = {Hajer Baazaoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Rania Soussi}, title = {Towards an on- Line Semantic Information Retrieval System based on Fuzzy Ontologies}, journal = {Journal of Digital Information Management}, year = {2008}, volume = {6}, number = {5}, doi = {}, url = {http://www.dirf.org/jdim/v6n5a3.asp}, abstract = {The huge number of available documents on the Web makes finding relevant ones a challenge. Thus, searching for information becomes more and more complex because of the growing volume of data and of its lack of structure. The quality of results that traditional full-text search engines provide is still not optimal for many types of user queries. Especially, the ambiguities of natural languages and abstract concepts are handled inadequately by full-text search engines. Ontologies provide a solution to these problems. They can help a user to find documents related to a specific domain. This paper proposes a new retrieval system based on ontologies. This system integrates results from traditional full-text engines, and thus supports a gradual transition from classical full-text search engines to ontology-based ones.}, }