Using linguistic knowledge in view integration: Toward a third generation of tools

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-78

  Métais, Elisabeth ^a   Kedad, Zoubida ^a   Comyn Wattiau, Isabelle ^a,b   Bouzeghoub, Mokrane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES   (France)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Conceptual graphs; Linguistic knowledge; Semantic distance; Similarity vector; Unification; View integration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODELS; FILLMORE'S SEMANTIC CASES; SOWA'S CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS; VIEW INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031169144     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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