Semantic similarity measurement and geospatial applications

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-659

  Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Raubal, Martin ^b   Schwering, Angela ^c   Kuhn, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASUREMENT;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 57749195126     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2008.01129.x     Document Type: Editorial

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