A context-aware semantic similarity model for ontology environments

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-524

  Dong, Hai ^a   Hussain, Farookh Khadeer ^a   Chang, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ontology; OWL; semantic network; semantic similarity model

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY;

CONTEXT-AWARE; CONVERSION PROCESS; EVALUATION RESULTS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; ONTOLOGY CONCEPTS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MODEL;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79251594800     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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