A semantic-web based framework for developing applications to improve accessibility in the WWW

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 134, Issue , 2006, Pages 98-108

  Kouroupetroglou, Christos ^a   Salampasis, Michail ^b   Manitsaris, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b TEI of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Information seeking; Metadata; RDF; Semantic web; Voice browser

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; METADATA; ONTOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SEEKING; SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATION; VOICE BROWSER;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 34250758160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1133219.1133238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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