1. Semantic Web Project Pancreatic Cancer Search Facilitator

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Protégé Ontology Building

7. Web Crawler and Lucene

8. Accessing Ontology through Jena Framework (using Sparql)

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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