Content based similarity of geographic classes organized as partition hierarchies

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-241

  Formica, Anna ^a   Pourabbas, Elaheh ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geographic class; Information content; Naive geography; Partition hierarchy; Similarity reasoning

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

ATTRIBUTE SIMILARITY; CONCEPT SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC CLASS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; NAIVE GEOGRAPHY; ONTOLOGY MANAGEMENT; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY REASONING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 68349139649     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-008-0177-8     Document Type: Article

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