Semantic similarity estimation from multiple ontologies

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-44

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

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; MeSH; Ontologies; Semantic similarity; SNOMED; WordNet

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; GENERAL PURPOSE; HUMAN EXPERT; MESH; MISSING VALUES; PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT; SIMILARITY ESTIMATION; SNOMED; STATE OF THE ART; WORDNET;

ESTIMATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84871749311     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-012-0355-y     Document Type: Article

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