NDLI: Capturing Place Semantics on the GeoSocial Web

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Capturing Place Semantics on the GeoSocial Web

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Author	ElGindy, Ehab Abdelmoty, Alia
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Massive interest in geo-referencing of personal resources is evident on the web. People are collaboratively digitising maps and building place knowledge resources that document personal use and experiences in geographic places. Understanding and discovering these place semantics can potentially lead to the development of a different type of place gazetteer that holds not only standard information of place names and geographic location but also activities practiced by people in a place and vernacular views of place characteristics. In this paper, a novel framework is proposed for the analysis of geo-folksonomies and the automatic discovery of place-related semantics. The framework is based on a model of geographic place that extends the definition of place as defined in traditional gazetteers and geospatial ontologies to include the notion of place affordance. The derived place-related concepts are compared against an expert formal ontology of place types and activities and evaluated using both a user-based evaluation experiment and by measuring the degree of semantic relatedness of the derived concepts. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed framework, an application is developed to illustrate the possible enrichment of search experience by exposing the derived semantics to users of web mapping applications.
Starting Page	207
Ending Page	223
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18612032
Journal	Journal on Data Semantics
Volume Number	3
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18612040
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2014-02-06
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Database Management Information Storage and Retrieval Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Business Information Systems Geographic information retrieval Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Place semantics Geo-social web
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems

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