Ontology-oriented e-gov services retrieval

Abstract: The semantic e-government is a new application field accompanying the development of semantic web where the ontologies have become a fertile field of investigation. This is due firstly to both the complexity and the size of e-government systems and secondly to the importance of the issues. However, permitting easy and personalized access to e-government services has become, at this juncture, an arduous and not spontaneous process. Indeed, the provided e-gov services to the user represent a critical contact point between administrations and users. The encountered problems in the e-gov services retrieving process are: the absence of an integrated one-stop government, the difficulty of localizing the services' sources, the lack of mastery of search terms and the deficiency of multilingualism of the online services. In order to solve these problems, to facilitate access to e-gov services and to satisfy the needs of potential users, we propose an original approach to this issue. This approach incorporates a semantic layer as a crucial element in the retrieving process. It consists in implementing a personalized search system that integrates ontology of the e-gov domain in this process.