Fuzzy semantic distance measures between ontological concepts

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 635-640

  Cross, Valerie ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEROPERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FUZZY SEMANTICS; FUZZY SET COMPATIBILITY; ONTOLOGY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 4544266733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nafips.2004.1337375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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