Analyzing the gap between workflows and their natural language descriptions

SERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services

Volumn , Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 299-305

  Groth, Paul ^a   Gil, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advice; MyExperiment; Scientific workflows; Textual analysis; Workflow constructs

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS WORKFLOWS; COMPONENT COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; END USERS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL EDITORS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORK-FLOWS;

BIOINFORMATICS; LINGUISTICS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 72849132735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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