The state of the art in ontology learning: A framework for comparison

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 293-316

  Shamsfard, Mehrnoush ^a   Barforoush, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NON-EMPTY SET; ONTOLOGY LEARNING (OL); TAXONOMIC RELATIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347903342     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888903000687     Document Type: Article

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