A graph-based approach for extracting terminological properties from information sources with heterogeneous formats

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 462-497

  Palopoli, Luigi ^a   Rosaci, Domenico ^b   Terracina, Giorgio ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic and semantic approaches for intersource property detection; Intersource properties; Structured and semistructured information sources; Synonymies and homonymies

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; XML;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SOURCES; INFORMATION SOURCES; INTERSOURCE PROPERTIES; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; SEMI-STRUCTURED INFORMATION; SYNONYMIES AND HOMONYMIES;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 28044464467     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-004-0185-2     Document Type: Article

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