The impact of linguistics on conceptual models: Consistency and understandability

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-146

  Burg, Johannes Franciscus Maria ^a   Van De Riet, R P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Lexicon; Model validation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELS; CONSISTENCY; LEXICON; MODEL VALIDATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; UNDERSTANDABILITY; UNIVERSE OF DISCOURSE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0030785979     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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