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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf18402</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2007.191</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Extracting Personalised Ontology from Data-Intensive Web Application: an HTML Forms-Based Reverse Engineering Approach</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Benslimane</surname><given-names>Sidi Mohamed</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:benslimane@univ-sba.dz">benslimane@univ-sba.dz</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Malki</surname><given-names>Mimoun</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:malki@univ-sba.dz">malki@univ-sba.dz</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Rahmouni</surname><given-names>Mustapha Kamal</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:rahmouni@mail.univ-oran.dz">rahmouni@mail.univ-oran.dz</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Benslimane</surname><given-names>Djamal</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr">djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Computer Science Department, University of Sidi Bel Abbes, B.P 89 Sidi Bel Abbes, 22000 Algeria</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">University of Oran, BP 1524 El Mnaouer, 31000, ORAN, Algeria</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">LIRIS Laboratory, University of Claude Bernard Lyon, 8 Bld Niels Bohr, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2007</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>511</fpage><lpage>534</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>08</month><year>2005</year></date></history><abstract><p>The advance of the Web has significantly and rapidly changed the way of information organization, sharing and distribution. The next generation of the web, the semantic web, seeks to make information more usable by machines by introducing a more rigorous structure based on ontologies. In this context we try to propose a novel and integrated approach for a semi-automated extraction of ontology-based semantic web from data-intensive web application and thus, make the web content machine-understandable. Our approach is based on the idea that semantics can be extracted by applying a reverse engineering technique on the structures and the instances of HTML-forms which are the most convenient interface to communicate with relational databases on the current data-intensive web application. This semantics is exploited to produce over several steps, a personalised ontology.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>semantic web</kwd><kwd>reverse engineering</kwd><kwd>ontology</kwd><kwd>HTML-forms</kwd><kwd>data-intensive web application</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>