WHIRL: a world-based information representation language

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 163-196

  Cohen, William W ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TEXTUAL SIMILARITY; WORD BASED INFORMATION REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0034172470     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(99)00102-2     Document Type: Article

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