Learning non-taxonomic relationships from web documents for domain ontology construction

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 600-623

  Sánchez, David ^a   Moreno, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Non taxonomic relationships; Ontology learning; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ONTOLOGY; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; NON-TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS; WEB DOCUMENTS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 38649107088     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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