Title
I-Dataquest: A Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Tool Using Data Graph For The Manufacturing Industry
Abstract
Manufacturing industry needs access to the data in order to realise its activities but also to generate new value-added knowledge. Nevertheless, it is confronted with a large and growing volume of heterogeneous data which limits its ability to exploit them optimally. Moreover, the data are distributed within different heterogeneous information systems, which limits the relationship exploration under the information retrieval process. Usually, the challenge is addressed by trying to manage and normalize the data structure in order to faster searching and exploiting them in a manufacturing context. For their part, the authors present i-Dataquest, an information retrieval system supported by (i) a graph-oriented model built from the structured and unstructured data of the company and (ii) a query system answering 'what' and 'about what' and (iii) generating three different results: a list of items, a list of property values and a list of sentences. The i-Dataquest prototype is built using Neo4J for the graph system generation, ConceptNet for lexical resource management and StandfordNLP for natural language processing. An evaluation of the prototype's performance is conducted through a data set representing a drone manufacturer. The results show that the transformation of specific content such as tables in the graph and the semantic expansion of queries significantly improves the recall and precision measures. The results also suggest improving filtering less relevant results by considering particularly queries looking for a specific value. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.compind.2021.103527
COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Graph database, Query system, Information retrieval system, Manufacturing data, Manufacturing industry
Journal
132
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0166-3615
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lise Kim100.34
Esma Yahia200.34
Frédéric Segonds3134.90
Philippe Véron4447.20
Antoine Mallet501.01