Towards very large terminological knowledge bases: A case study from medicine

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1822, Issue , 2000, Pages 176-186

  Hahn, Udo ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA DESCRIPTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONCEPT DEFINITIONS; CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRITY CHECKING; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES; TERMINOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE BASIS;

TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 84943255714     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45486-1_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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