Higgs bosons, mars missions, and unicorn delusions: How to deal with terms of dubious reference in scientific ontologies

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 833, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-189

  Schulz, Stefan ^a,b   Brochhausen, Mathias ^c   Hoehndorf, Robert ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTION LOGIC; HIGGS BOSON; MARS MISSIONS; SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE;

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

DATA DESCRIPTION;

EID: 84891949288     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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