Mining topological relations from the web

Proceedings - International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 652-656

  Schockaert, Steven ^a   Smart, Philip D ^b   Abdelmoty, Alia I ^b   Jones, Christopher B ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; APPLICATIONS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

ADJACENCY RELATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SPATIAL REASONINGS; TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS; WEB DOCUMENTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 57849149531     PISSN: 15294188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEXA.2008.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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