Query construction through meaningful suggestions of terms

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

Volumn 2522, Issue , 2002, Pages 226-239

  Kapetanios, E ^a   Groenewoud, P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Ontologies; Query languages; Semantics

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CYCLIC GRAPH; END USERS; LARGE DATABASE; LARGE VOCABULARY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUERY CONSTRUCTION; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY INTERFACES; STORAGE MODEL; VISUAL FORMALISM; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES; DOMAIN SEMANTICS;

DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 84867290927     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36109-x_18     Document Type: Article

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