Mediators over ontology-based information sources

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2001

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 31-40

  Tzitzikas, Y ^a,b   Spyratos, N ^c   Constantopoulos, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Computer science; Databases; Merging; Natural languages; Ontologies; Physics; Web pages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MERGING; ONTOLOGY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CATALOGS; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; INFORMATION REQUEST; INFORMATION SOURCES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; SOURCE SELECTION; SUBSUMPTION RELATION;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 33746046104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WISE.2001.996464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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