Extracting Ontologies from Arabic Wikipedia: A Linguistic Approach

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2749-2771

  Al Rajebah, Nora I ^a   Al Khalifa, Hend S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Linguistics; Ontologies; Semantic field theory; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900015058     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0791-y     Document Type: Article

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