The linguistic level: Contribution for conceptual design, view integration, reuse and documentation

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-129

  Ambrosio, Ana Paula ^a   Métais, Elisabeth ^b   Meunier, Jean Noël ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES   (France)

Author keywords

CASE tool; Linguistic knowledge; Paraphrasing; Schema reuse; View integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES; PARAPHRASING; SCHEMA REUSE; SEMANTICS; VIEW INTEGRATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0041939453     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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