Pattern-based automatic taxonomy learning from the Web

AI Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-48

  Sánchez, David ^a   Moreno, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Ontologies; Taxonomy learning; Web mining

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONTOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

AUTOMATIC TAXONOMY LEARNING; TAXONOMY LEARNING; WEB ENVIRONMENT;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 40549141816     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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