Ontology-based spatial query expansion in information retrieval

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

Volumn 3761 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 1466-1482

  Fu, Gaihua ^a   Jones, Christopher B ^a   Abdelmoty, Alia I ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ontology; Query Expansion; Semantic Web; Spatial Search

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUZZY CONTROL; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY; QUERY EXPANSION; SEMANTIC WEB; SPATIAL SEARCH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646698004     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11575801_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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