Using a natural language understanding system to generate Semantic Web content

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 50-74

  Java, Akshay ^a   Nirneburg, Sergei ^a   McShane, Marjorie ^a   Finin, Timothy ^a   English, Jesse ^a   Joshi, Anupam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Natural language processing; OWL; RDF; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WEB CRAWLER; WEB SERVICES;

AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC WEB LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77949574518     PISSN: 15526283     EISSN: 15526291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2007100103     Document Type: Article

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