Text-based domain ontology building using Tf-Idf and metric clusters techniques

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 379-403

  Rezgui, Yacine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; METRIC CLUSTERS TECHNIQUES; TEXT-BASED DOMAIN ONTOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; THESAURI;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 43649101545     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888907001130     Document Type: Article

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