Mining semantics for culturomics - Towards a knowledge-based approach

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-10

  Borin, Lars ^a   Dubhashi, Devdatt ^b   Forsberg, Markus ^a   Johansson, Richard ^a   Kokkinakis, Dimitrios ^a   Nugues, Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big data; Culturomics; Language processing; Semantics; Swedish

Indexed keywords

BIG DATUM; CULTURAL HERITAGES; CULTUROMICS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY; SEMANTIC PROCESSING; SWEDISHS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84889587228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2513549.2513551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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