Design of a Semantic Search Engine System for Apparel

Firstly, based on the needs of supply-chain management in the environment of E-business, this paper analyzed problem existed in present search engine for apparel-goods and proposed a new kind of distributed search engine for apparel goods based on semantic web services, and then discussed its architecture. Secondly, this paper introduced apparel ontology design model and the representation method that based on Ontology Web Language (OWL). Thirdly, this paper analyzed basic functions of apparel search engine and Web Services (WS) synthesizing in distributed environment. At last, through the theoretical Analysis and the designed prototype, it showed that this kind of search engine, based on apparel semantic tree, was more efficient apparently than full-text search engine when searching with multi-keywords.