Automatic computation of semantic proximity using taxonomic knowledge

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 465-474

  Ziegler, Cai Nicolas ^a,b   Simon, Kai ^a   Lausen, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Data extraction; Metrics; Semantic similarity; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; DATA EXTRACTION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; TAXONOMY;

COMPUTATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTIC WEB; TAXONOMIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 34547635415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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