DocumentCode :
2127859
Title :
Ontology for Geographical Names Management and Retrieval
Author :
Cheng, Gang ; Du, Qingyun
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Autom., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu
fYear :
2008
fDate :
21-22 Dec. 2008
Firstpage :
784
Lastpage :
788
Abstract :
Geographical Names are key components of all georeferenced information systems, including GIS applications in many diverse fields of knowledge and services. This paper we focus on building an ontology for gazetteers, the ontology will better support the gazetteers applications, maintenances, and usability. The ontology contains place types, spatial and temporal concepts and their relations. We firstly establish a prototype of geographical name ontology. Secondly, we analyzed geographical names concepts and their semantics, to describe the knowledge structure for this field. Then we use OWL to provide a formal description for these concepts and relations and propose a unified semantic framework for the description of the geographical names information. Finally, we make an experiment by establishing ontology-based knowledge base. Through the analysis of examples we showed that ontology-based geographical names information can be shared and reused conveniently, and that the information retrieval by assistant of ontology can be easily realized.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; information retrieval; ontologies (artificial intelligence); GIS; geographical names management; information retrieval; ontology; semantics; Environmental management; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Information systems; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; OWL; Ontologies; Resource management; Thesauri;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2008. KAM '08. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3488-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/KAM.2008.37
Filename :
4732936
Link To Document :
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