Merging potentially inconsistent items of structured text

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 305-332

  Hunter, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

LOGIC-BASED INCONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT METHODS; MERGING INFORMATIONS; SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034259074     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(00)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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