Semantic matching: Formal ontological distinctions for information organization, extraction, and integration

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

Volumn 1299, Issue , 1997, Pages 139-170

  Guarino, Nicola ^a  

^a Istituto di Ingeneria Biomedica del CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; INFORMATION ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND EXTRACTION; LINGUISTIC ONTOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; SEMANTIC MATCHING; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84947723066     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63438-x_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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