Evaluating ontologies based on the naturalness of their preferred terms

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Soon, Ae Chun ^a   Geller, James ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 51449118896     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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