Integrating textual analysis and evidential reasoning for decision making in Engineering design

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-175

  Browne, Fiona ^a   Rooney, Niall ^b   Liu, Weiru ^a   Bell, David ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Taylor, Philip S ^c   Jin, Yan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c The Concourse   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dezert Smarandache Theory; Discounting techniques; Evidential reasoning; Information extraction; Information fusion; Knowledge and data engineering; Natural language processing; Textual entailment

Indexed keywords

DATA ENGINEERING; DEZERT-SMARANDACHE THEORY; DISCOUNTING TECHNIQUES; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84883889223     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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