LinKBase®, a philosophically-inspired ontology for NLP/NLU applications

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 222, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-75

  Van Gurp, Maria ^a   Decoene, Manuel ^a   Holvoet, Marnix ^a   Casella Dos Santos, Mariana ^a  

^a Language and Computing NV ^*  (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; DATA INTEGRATION APPLICATIONS; DATA-SOURCES; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EDITING RULES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MODELING QUALITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; THIRD PARTIES; UNDERLYING LANGUAGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 84872956135     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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