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GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Microtheories for Spatial Data Infrastructures - Accounting for Diversity of Local Conceptualizations at a Global Level
The categorization of our environment into feature types is an essential prerequisite for cartography, geographic information retrieval, routing applications, spatial decision supp...
Stephanie Duce, Krzysztof Janowicz
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Geo-tagging for imprecise regions of different sizes
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
ESWS
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
An Ontology-Based Information Retrieval Model
Semantic search has been one of the motivations of the Semantic Web since it was envisioned. We propose a model for the exploitation of ontologybased KBs to improve search over lar...
David Vallet, Miriam Fernández, Pablo Caste...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Position paper: ontology construction from online ontologies
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Harith Alani
AWIC
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Natural Language Interface for Information Retrieval on Semantic Web Documents
Abstract. We present a dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to a web information retrieval system. We use a Web Semantic Language to model the knowledge conv...
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues