Semantic search system using ontology for computer languages

The World Wide Web allows people to globally share data from large repositories. Retrieving desired data/information is a challenging task for the search engines. Some existing search engines apply keyword search technique while others retrieve partially semantic results. The data accessed by the former is quick, but a lot of it is irrelevant and that by the later is semantically consistent to some extent but the response time is high. The proposed project adds a semantic dimension to the search system by a domain specific ontology. The ontology is well maintained in terms of concepts and relations. The system implements data retrieval technique similar to the one applied by the keyword search engines. Thus the proposed system is an advancement to the existing systems and meets both the requirements of being semantic in nature and quick to respond. The system accepts the user's need in the form of query, parses it, rephrases parsed query using ontology and then finally fires it to a keyword search engine. The retrieved links are filtered and reordered based on their relevance. The system also provides suggestions depending on query terms and intellisense. Thus the proposed project intends to develop such a system for major programming languages like C⁺⁺, java etc.