D4.2.1 State-of-the-art survey on Ontology Merging and Aligning V1
Published 1 January 2004
Jos de Bruijn, Francisco Mart
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This deliverable contains a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey on Ontology Merging and Aligning methods, tools and specification languages.
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EU-IST Integrated Project (IP) IST-2003-506826 SEKT Deliverable D4.2.1 (WP4) This deliverable contains a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey on Ontology Merging and Aligning methods, tools and specification languages. Keyword list: Ontology Mediation, state-of-the-art survey, ontology merging, ontology aligning, ontology mapping
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