GenTax: A generic methodology for deriving OWL and RDF-S ontologies from hierarchical classifications, thesauri, and inconsistent taxonomies

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

Volumn 4519 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 129-144

  Hepp, Martin ^a   De Bruijn, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Classifications; Ontology engineering; Ontology learning; OWL; RDF S; Reuse; Taxonomies; Thesauri; UNSPSC

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATIONS; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY LEARNING;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 34548102785     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72667-8_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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