Flexible and customizable NL representation of requirements for ETL processes

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

Volumn 4592 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 433-439

  Skoutas, Dimitrios ^a   Simitsis, Alkis ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Data warehouses; ETL; Metadata; Natural language; Ontologies; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

DATA WAREHOUSES; METADATA; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149059128     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73351-5_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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