What aro ontologies, and why do we need them?

IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-26

  Chandrasekaran, B ^a   Josephson, John R ^a   Benjamins, V Richard ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SORTING;

CONTENT THEORY; GENERALIZED UPPER MODELS (GUM); KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ONTOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032732449     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5254.747902     Document Type: Article

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