Semantic Web Project

Pancreatic Cancer

Search Facilitator

Pancreatic Cancer Search Facilitator

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

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

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

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

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

Expanding the ontology Given more options to the users Integrate the pdf parser Use linguistics for intelligent searches Many more it can came up