From ontology to semantic similarity: Calculation of ontology-based semantic similarity

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gan, Mingxin ^a   Dou, Xue ^a   Jiang, Rui ^b  

^a University of Science and Technology Beijing   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84875501155     PISSN: 1537744X     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/793091     Document Type: Review

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