Onto-IKEA: A Knowledge Retrieval Framework
based on IKEA Ontology
Alexandros Vassiliades
1,2
, Nikos Zarkadas
1
, Nick Bassiliades
1
and Theodore Patkos
2
1
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Foundation for Research and Technology, Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece
Abstract
The evolution of Linked Open Data (LOD) has encouraged developers to create more and more context
related ontologies. This advance is extremely important because Artifcial Intelligence (AI) applications
can access domain specifc information that is in machine understandable format. In this paper, we
present a knowledge retrieval framework which is based on our custom made IKEA ontology. The
ontology is created with information from the IKEA dataset that we also created. The dataset contains
information about household objects found in the IKEA website, relations between objects, and features
such as dimensions, and material for the objects. Moreover, we provide a query interface that the user
can use to address queries to the ontology.
Keywords
Knowledge Retrieval, Ontology, Object Feature
1. Introduction
The evolution of LOD in the last twenty years allowed developers to construct context related
ontologies (i.e., ontologies that can be used only in specifc environments, such as a household).
The creation of context related ontologies seems to be the next step for allowing LOD to become
the main knowledge representation mechanism for the Web. Our focus is on context related
product ontologies, with features for the products (i.e., characteristics for the products). The
idea of product ontologies has been given great attention recently and even generic techniques
on how to create a product ontology were developed [1, 2].
This paper presents an ontology which was developed from a dataset that contains the
information of the IKEA Greece website
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. We present how we have collected the information
from the IKEA website, how we have translated the information in a LOD format, and how we
have developed a knowledge retrieval query interface to access the information in the ontology.
Therefore, the issue we want to address is to provide a dataset and an ontology about real life
FOIS 2021 Ontology Showcase, held at FOIS 2021 - 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
Systems, September 13-17, 2021, Bolzano, Italy
valexande@csd.auth.gr (A. Vassiliades); nikozark@csd.auth.gr (N. Zarkadas); nbassili@csd.auth.gr
(N. Bassiliades); patkos@ics.forth.gr (T. Patkos)
https://intelligence.csd.auth.gr/people/vassiliades-alexandros/ (A. Vassiliades);
https://intelligence.csd.auth.gr/people/bassiliades/ (N. Bassiliades); https://www.csd.uoc.gr/~patkos/ (T. Patkos)
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https://www.ikea.gr