Part-whole reasonings: A case study in medical ontology engineering

IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 59-67

  Hahn, Udo ^a,b   Schulz, Stefan ^a,c   Romacker, Martin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ACM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d American Medical Informatics Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ATTRIBUTIVE LANGUAGE OF CONCEPTS; CLINICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; PART WHOLE REASONING; PARTONOMIES; TAXONOMIC REASONING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 0033309121     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5254.796091     Document Type: Article

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