Speech acts, electronic commerce, and KQML

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-211

  Covington, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EDI; Electronic commerce; Electronic data interchange; Knowledge interchange; KQML; Natural language; Pragmatics; Speech act theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; KNOWLEDGE INTERCHANGE LANGUAGE; SPEECH ACT THEORY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032017696     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(97)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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