Towards ontological commitments with Ω-RIDL markup language

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

Volumn 4824 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 92-106

  Trog, Damien ^a   Tang, Yan ^a   Meersman, Robert ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS; ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS; RIDL MARKUP LANGUAGE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 38149078716     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75975-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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