A platform for visualizing and experimenting with measures of semantic similarity in ontologies and concept maps

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 713-732

  Gahegan, Mark ^a   Agrawal, Ritesh ^b   Jaiswal, Anuj ^b   Luo, Junyan ^b   Soon, Kean Huat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; Concept mapping; GI Science; Ontology; Schema mediation; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); SEMANTICS;

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; CONCEPT MAPS; CONCEPTS MAPPINGS; DATABASE SCHEMAS; GI SCIENCE; ONTOLOGY'S; OPEN PLATFORMS; SCHEMA MEDIATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY SCORES;

ONTOLOGY;

DATABASE; MAPPING; TAXONOMY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 57749200515     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2008.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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