Ontological diversity: The case from space

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 209, Issue , 2010, Pages 5-16

  Bateman, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Natural language processing; Natural language semantics; Ontological modularity; Ontology design; Qualitative spatial representation; Spatial language; Spatial ontology

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGICAL MODULARITY; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; SPATIAL ONTOLOGIES; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77951011825     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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