Figure 1 1 The architecture of the proposed system During searching and retrieval process, a novel and promising approach is concept-based search [7], [8], [9]. Ontology-based approach to IR is presented. With this approach, the burden of knowing how the documents are written is taken off the user and hence the user can focus on searching on a conceptual level instead. One problem with this approach is to find good concepts. Domain ontology is useful for query expansion by proliferating the input words with the relevant domain concepts. The system is based on a domain concepts representation schema in form of ontology. With the use of ontology, concepts and relations representing concepts about a particular document in domain specific terms are built. International Journal of Information Technology Convergence and Services (IJITCS) Vol.1, No.5, October 2011