Supporting schema integration by linguistic instruments

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-182

  Johannesson, Paul ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case grammar; Conceptual modelling; Galois lattice; Linguistic instruments; Schema integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; SPEECH;

CASE GRAMMAR; GALOIS LATTICE; LINGUISTIC INSTRUMENTS; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0030785978     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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