An overview of methods and tools for ontology learning from texts

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-212

  Gómez Pérez, Asunción ^a   Manzano Macho, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

AUTOMATIZATION; BEST CURRENT HYPOTHESIS BASED ALGORITHM; ONTOLOGY LEARNING; SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 21644490336     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888905000251     Document Type: Review

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