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GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying and grounding descriptions of places
In this paper we test the hypothesis Given a piece of text describing an object or concept our combined disambiguation method can disambiguate whether it is a place and ground it ...
Simon E. Overell, Stefan M. Rüger
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Building place ontologies for the semantic web: : issues and approaches
Place geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-semantic web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. ...
Alia I. Abdelmoty, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B....
COSIT
2009
Springer
144views GIS» more  COSIT 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Are Places Concepts? Familarity and Expertise Effects in Neighborhood Cognition
Named urban neighborhoods (localities) are often examples of vague place extents. These are compared with current knowledge of vagueness in concepts and categories within semantic ...
Clare Davies
PUC
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
From ethnography on infrastructure management to initial user feedback on PlaceMemo
This paper reports design requirements derived from an ethnographic fieldwork on road inspectors, the design of a mobile service supporting infrastructure management, and initial u...
Mattias Esbjörnsson
ERCIMDL
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Digital GeoLibrary: Integrating Keywords and Place Names
A digital library typically includes a set of keywords (or subject terms) for each document in its collection(s). For some applications, including natural resource management, geog...
Mathew Weaver, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Leonard D. Sh...