In situ migration of handcrafted ontologies to reason-able forms

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-162

  Egaña Aranguren, Mikel ^a   Wroe, Chris ^a   Goble, Carole ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DAG; Feature escalator; Gene ontology; Ontology enrichment; Ontology migration; Ontology untangling; OWL

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FEATURE ESCALATORS; ONTOLOGY ENRICHMENT; ONTOLOGY MIGRATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 44349156434     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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