A taxonomy learning method and its application to characterize a scientific web community

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-191

  Velardi, Paola ^a   Cucchiarelli, Alessandro ^b   Petit, Michael ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interoperability; Knowledge publishing; Ontology design; Web text analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING; ONTOLOGY DESIGNS; TAXONOMIES; WEB TEXT ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846187162     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.21     Document Type: Article

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