Carrying out a search on ideas and no more on their different verbal designations, as well as carrying out a search in my mother tongue and finding out all the relevant documents whatever their writing language and without translated them, are the main objectives of this work.

 

Ontoterminology allows, first, based on its multilingual terminology dimension, to classify documents on concepts considered as language-independant knowledge and, second, a concept-oriented semantic search. Using the logical properties of the formal ontology makes possible to improve the relevance of the results.

 

In the following example, carried out in collaboration with GRETh (Groupement pour la Recherche sur les Échangeurs Thermiques), looking for the concept ‘Tranfert de chaleur’ in French returns a set of documents the firsts of which are written in English.