近年來，健康意識逐漸抬頭，民眾如何正確地使用藥物以維護身體的健康，是目前各個醫療機構和政府所關心的重要課題之一。然而，在查詢用藥資訊方面，傳統搜尋引擎仍是使用關鍵字比對而無法判斷該辭彙的語意，以致無法過濾一些不相關的資料，因而使用者須耗費時間篩選資料。為了解決此一問題，我們利用語意網技術 (Semantic Web Technologies)建立一個以藥物知識本體 (Drug Ontology)為基礎之藥物指標語意查詢系統 (Drug Guide Semantic Search System，DGSSS)讓電腦或軟體代理人(Software Agent)能夠判讀知識本體以了解資料的語意，提昇資料搜尋的精確度與效率。DGSSS系統的主要目的是協助民眾就醫後，能擁有一套完整的用藥語意查詢系統，讓民眾可以快速且精確地查詢到相關用藥資訊，實現自我健康管理的方式。 In recent years, the health awareness is gradually rising. The populace how to correctly use the medicine to maintain body's health is an important topic that each medical establishment and government presently concern. However, the traditional search engines only provide the keywords-matching for querying drug-use information. They still lack the function to interpret the meaning of the terms. To solve this problem, we use the Semantic Web Technologies to construct an ontology-based Drug Guide Semantic Search System (DGSSS). The computer or Software Agent can read drug ontology to understand the meaning of data. The main purpose of DGSSS system is to help populace to build a complete semantic search system for drug-use. Therefore, the populace can quickly and correctly search the drug-use information to improve the personal health management.
