Applied Semantic Web Technologies

178  ◾  Konstantinos Kotis and Andreas Papasalouros

Future work should involve the experimentation with alternative algorithms that

utilize information externally—not in queries but in corpora related to them.

WordNet-based disambiguation of terms using vector-based analysis methods

(VSM, LSI) is a promising method used recently in many lines of related research.

However, its dependence on a specic lexicon may lead to incorrect results due

to absence of information. Although non-WordNet terms may be handled by the

proposed approaches via specications in the learned ontology, the validation of the

intended meanings of these terms is left to huma ...