On Z39.50 wrapping and description logics

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 208-220

  Velegrakis, Yannis ^a   Christophides, Vassilis ^b   Constantopoulos, Panos ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Description logics; Information retrieval; Query rewriting; Z39.50 wrapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012658754     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007990000036     Document Type: Article

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