IRIS: A Prot´eg´e plug-in to extract and serialize product attribute name-value pairs

Abstract

This article introduces IRIS wrapper, which is developed as a Prot´eg´e plug-in, to solve an increasingly important problem: extracting information from the product descriptions provided by online sources and structuring this information so that is sharable among business entities, software agents and search engines. Extracted product information is presented in a GoodRelations-compliant ontology. IRIS also automatically marks up your products using RDFa or Microdata. Creating GoodRelations snippets in RDFa or Microdata using the product information extracted from Web is a business value, especially when you consider most of the popular search engines recommend the use of these standards to provide rich site data for their index.