Context dependency management in ontology engineering: A formal approach

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

Volumn 4380 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 26-56

  De Leenheer, Pieter ^a   De Moor, Aldo ^a   Meersman, Robert ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Context dependency management; Context driven ontology engineering; Lexical disambiguation; Ontology evolution; Ontology management

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CONTEXT-DRIVEN ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; DYNAMIC WEALTH; LEXICAL DISAMBIGUATION; ONTOLOGY MANAGEMENT;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 38149132609     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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