Reasoning about fuzzy temporal information from the web: Towards retrieval of historical events

Soft Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 869-886

  Schockaert, Steven ^a   de Cock, Martine ^a   Kerre, Etienne E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Event based retrieval; Fuzzy set theory; Temporal reasoning

Indexed keywords

ALLEN'S INTERVAL ALGEBRA; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-BASED RETRIEVAL; FUZZIFICATIONS; HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; REASONER; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TEMPORAL REASONING; TEMPORAL RELATION; WEB DOCUMENT;

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 77951938315     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-009-0471-8     Document Type: Article

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