A Semantic Web approach to everyday overlapping markup

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1696-1716

  Di Iorio, Angelo ^a   Peroni, Silvio ^a   Vitali, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FORMAT; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; MICROSOFT WORD; OVERLAPPING MARKUP; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK; SEMANTIC WEB APPROACH; TEXT DOCUMENT; WORD PROCESSOR; XML DATA;

SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; XML;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 80051664909     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21591     Document Type: Article

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