A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-199

  Gacitua, Ricardo ^a   Sawyer, Pete ^a   Rayson, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Machine learning methods; NLP methods; Ontologies; Ontology learning; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

CYCLICAL PROCESS; ONTOLOGY LEARNING; ONTOLOGY MODELING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 40449124704     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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