A Chinese time ontology for the Semantic Web

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1057-1074

  Zhang, Chunxia ^a   Cao, Cungen ^b   Sui, Yuefei ^b   Wu, Xindong ^c,d  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^d HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese time ontology; Semantic Web; Temporal entities; Temporal representation; Time ontology

Indexed keywords

CORE COMPONENTS; INTEGRAL PART; KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM; TEMPORAL ENTITIES; TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS; TIME ONTOLOGY; TIME SYSTEMS; TIMING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79959760779     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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