A Proposal of Semantic Analysis based Integrated Multi-Level Search System for Smart TV

Aligned with the rapid change of broadcast environment TV is no longer than a passive device to receive a signal of terrestrial television broadcasting. A Smart TV is the new trend of integration of the Internet and Web 2.0 features into the modern television sets and set-top boxes. The users having much experience in a computer want to use a Smart TV alike. However, a Smart TV has yet to provide various user interface devices such as a mouse and a keyboard thus it is needed to develop new search technology to analyze user intents from a simple user keyword phrase and search the target contents from the multiple sources including broadcast network and Internet. In this paper, we proposed the framework of semantic analysis based integrated multi-level search system to improve search accuracy and expand search coverage. The proposed system can retrieve the user desirable multimedia contents from various sources at a time by analyzing an ambiguous user keyword phrase with ontological knowledge.