TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating and querying parallel leaf shape descriptions
AU - Wang, Shenghui
AU - Pan, Jeff Z.
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - Information integration and retrieval have been important problems for many information systems - it is hard to combine new information with any other piece of related information we already possess, and to make them both available for application queries. Many ontology-based applications are still cautious about integrating and retrieving information from natural language (NL) documents, preferring structured or semi-structured sources. In this paper, we investigate how to use ontologies to facilitate integrating and querying information on parallel leaf shape descriptions from NL documents. Our approach takes advantage of ontologies to precisely represent the semantics in shape description, to integrates parallel descriptions according to their semantic distances, and to answer shape-related species identification queries. From this highly specialised domain, we learn a set of more general methodological rules, which could be useful in other domains.
AB - Information integration and retrieval have been important problems for many information systems - it is hard to combine new information with any other piece of related information we already possess, and to make them both available for application queries. Many ontology-based applications are still cautious about integrating and retrieving information from natural language (NL) documents, preferring structured or semi-structured sources. In this paper, we investigate how to use ontologies to facilitate integrating and querying information on parallel leaf shape descriptions from NL documents. Our approach takes advantage of ontologies to precisely represent the semantics in shape description, to integrates parallel descriptions according to their semantic distances, and to answer shape-related species identification queries. From this highly specialised domain, we learn a set of more general methodological rules, which could be useful in other domains.
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M3 - Published conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845409185
SN - 3540490299
SN - 9783540490296
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 668
EP - 681
BT - The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006 - 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006
Y2 - 5 November 2006 through 9 November 2006
ER -