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A description logic model for querying knowledge bases for structured documents

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Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 1997)

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Structure is an important characteristic of documents. In the document management community it has been realized that there is a need for querying and retrieval of documents based on the structure of the documents. In this paper we propose a knowledge-based system for representation and retrieval of documents. The model on which the system is based is an extension of the description logic model of information retrieval. We discuss the advantages of our model and we show how our model can cope with many of the desirable queries involving the structure of documents.

Part of this work was done while the first author was visiting the Department of Computer Science of the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. The first author is supported by grant 95-176 from the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences (TFR).

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, S-581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    Patrick Lambrix

  2. Department of Computer Science, RMIT University, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Lin Padgham

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Zbigniew W. Raś Andrzej Skowron

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Lambrix, P., Padgham, L. (1997). A description logic model for querying knowledge bases for structured documents. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_7

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