Managing Very Large Document Collections Using Semantics

Guoren Wang, Hongjun Lu, Ge Yu, Yubin Bao

Abstract: In this paper, a system is presented where documents are no longer identified by their file names. Instead, a document is represented by its semantics in terms ofdescriptor andcontent vector. Thedescriptor of a document consists of a set of attributes, such as date of creation, its type, its size, annotations, etc. Thecontent vector of a document consists of a set of terms extracted from the document. In this paper, a semantic document management system XBASE is designed and implemented based on the semantics and the functions of three main modules, X-Loader, X-Explorer and X-Query.