Measuring semantic differences between conceptualisations: The Portuguese water bodies case - Does education matter?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3762 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 1020-1026

  Pires, Paulo ^a   Painho, Marco ^a   Kuhn, Werner ^b  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Geographic Categories; Geographical Information Systems; Semantics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; STUDENTS; SURVEYING;

COGNITION; CONCEPTUALIZATION DIFFERENCES; GEOGRAPHIC CATEGORIES; GEOGRAPHICAL CATEGORIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33646689167     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11575863_124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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