An approach to the management of multiple aligned multilingual ontologies for a geospatial earth observation system

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

Volumn 6631 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 52-69

  Stock, Kristin ^a   Cialone, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geospatial systems; interoperability; multilingual ontologies; natural language query; semantic alignment

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; GEO-SPATIAL; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS; MULTILINGUAL ONTOLOGIES; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; SEMANTIC SEARCH; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE;

INTEROPERABILITY; OBSERVATORIES; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79957995838     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20630-6_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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