A semantic information gathering approach for heterogeneous information sources on WWW

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 357-374

  Arch Int, Ngamnii ^a   Sophatsathit, Peraphon ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Domain names; Metadata; Ontologies; Semantic relations; World Wide Web; XML

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

INFORMATION SOURCES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0142062999     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01655515030295003     Document Type: Article

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