Exploiting taxonomical knowledge to compute semantic similarity: An evaluation in the biomedical domain

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6096 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 274-283

  Batet, Montserrat ^a   Sanchez, David ^a   Valls, Aida ^a   Gibert, Karina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Data mining; Ontologies; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; BIOMEDICAL FIELDS; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; BIOMEDICINE; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA MINING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79551534113     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13022-9_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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