Conceptual Enrichment of Locations Pointed Out by the User

Abstract. The growing availability of GPS and localization technologies in general opens up new challenges regarding the use of position information for Location Based Services. As a side effect, several research questions arise, one of which we consider in this paper: “What is the meaning of place?”. Here, we present two ongoing projects that we believe can contribute to the answer. The first regards the semantic enrichment of place, starting from a simple description of the place towards a concept network; the second focuses the natural language description of this network, as a final output to the user. We present these two projects, focus on their intersection and give an example of the end results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: KES
• Authors: Ana O. Alves, Raquel Hervás, Francisco C. Pereira, Pablo Gervás, Carlos Bento
• Keywords: KES 2007, Localization Technologies, Location Based Services, Natural Language Description