Transcript Pancreatic Cancer Search Power Point

Semantic Web Project
Pancreatic Cancer
Search Facilitator
Pancreatic Cancer Search
Facilitator
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Our goal for this project is to aid patients
diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer find
relevant information about their disease and
their options.
We are targeting a patient profile of a newly
diagnosed Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the
Pancreas.
Steps to Achieve Project Goal
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Create an Ontology (Protégé)
Create a User Profile through a GUI (Eclipse)
Crawl the web to find relevant information
Index the information searching for specified
keywords through the user profile and the ontology
(Eclipse and Jena Framework)
Return the relevant data to the user as clickable
links.
Ontology and Patient Profile
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We created an ontology so there is an
accepted list of terms for us to depend on.
We created a profile for the user depending
on the information they select through a GUI,
that is consistent with the ontology.
Protégé Ontology Building
Protégé Ontology Building
Web Crawler and Lucene
Accessing Ontology through Jena
Framework (using Sparql)
Latest Progress
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So far we have managed to create the
ontology in Protégé and express the
relationships of the classes.
We tested the Web Crawler and created the
GUI in Eclipse.
We have Lucene indexing the files
We got all the components integrated into
one application.
Challenges
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Creating the GUI (catch attention)
The Web Crawler was given but not to well
documented.
Accessing the ontology using the Jena
Framework.
Getting the search to work
Integrating all the components.
Possible Improvements
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Expanding the ontology
Given more options to the users
Integrate the pdf parser
Use linguistics for intelligent searches
Many more it can came up