A semi-automatic solution for XML query response enrichment using a terminological domain ontology

The introduction of data semantics in various fields of science by referring to the ontological database is becoming more and more necessary. With the proliferation of domain ontologies and the large volume of data to be processed, it has become necessary to have data management systems based on ontological systems. Such a system can be exploited via the web as is the case with XML databases, which will allow us to: - use semantic databases via the Internet. - To enrich responses to XML queries by using domain terminology ontology. Also, XML present a flexible hierarchical model suitable to represent huge amounts of data with no absolute and fixed schema, In order to highlight the usefulness of introducing the semantics in the XML database and to enrich the answers to the queries, we have proposed a semi-automatic solution that we applied it for pharmaceutical databases, and which gave very encouraging preliminary results.