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The method requires a limited training effort but it turns out to be very effective during the classification phase. Casting retrieval as the problem of assessing the classmembership of individuals w.r.t. the query concepts, we propose an extension of a classification algorithm using RCE networks based on an entropic similarity measure for OWL. Experimentally we show that the performance of the resulting inductive classifier is comparable with the one of a standard reasoner and often more efficient than with other inductive approaches. 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