An information extraction approach to reorganizing and summarizing specifications

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 215-232

  Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad ^a   Berkovich, Aaron ^b   Sokol, Dan Z ^c  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b Cohesia Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c Renaissance Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous documents; Information extraction; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SEMANTICS;

DOMAIN LIBRARY TERMS (DLT); HETEROGENOUS DOCUMENTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 13144306125     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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