Patent ID: 7853618

Claim:
A method of providing information from at least one information resource, said method comprising: providing, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a plurality of generic ontological constructs made available in accordance with a set of semantic query validity rules, the rules enforcing neutrality of a semantic query relative to substantially all ontological representation languages such that each and any semantic query specified by a user via the GUI and validated by the semantic query validity rules is representable in substantially all ontological representation languages, each of the constructs having a counterpart in each of the substantially all ontological representation languages; receiving from a user via the GUI a semantic query including one or more of the generic constructs, the received semantic query referencing an ontology relating to a domain of the at least one information resource; inferring from the included constructs a representation of the received semantic query in an ontology representation language associated with the referenced ontology; and using the inferred query representation to access the at least one information resource; said method performed by at least one processor configured with memory.