Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies. Where is their meeting point?

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-64

  Corcho, Oscar ^a   Fernández López, Mariano ^a   Gómez Pérez, Asunción ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ontology; Ontology language; Ontology methodology; Ontology tool

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038182929     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(02)00195-7     Document Type: Review

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