Abstract
In this paper we describe the project INTLIB – an INTelligent LIBrary whose aim is to provide a more sophisticated and user-friendly tool for querying textual documents than full-text search. On the input we assume a collection of documents related to a particular problem domain (e.g., legislation, medicine, environment, etc.).
In the first phase we extract from the documents a knowledge base, i.e. a set of objects and their relationships, which is based on a particular ontology (semantics). In the second phase we deal with sophisticated and user friendly visualization and browsing (querying) of the extracted knowledge.
The whole system is proposed as a general framework which can be modified and extended for particular data domains. To depict its features we use the legislation domain.