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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.71
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93997
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Yousaf, Madiha ; Wolter, Diedrich

Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Spatio-Ontological Reasoning (Short Paper)

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Abstract

This paper is involved with extracting spatial information from text. We seek to geo-reference all spatial entities mentioned in a piece of text. The focus of this paper is to investigate the contribution of spatial and ontological reasoning to spatial interpretation of text. A preliminary study considering descriptions of cities and geographical regions from English Wikipedia suggests that spatial and ontological reasoning can be more effective to resolve ambiguities in text than a classical text understanding pipeline relying on parsing.

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@InProceedings{yousaf_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:9399,
  author =	{Madiha Yousaf and Diedrich Wolter},
  title =	{{Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Spatio-Ontological Reasoning (Short Paper)}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Geographic Information  Science (GIScience 2018)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-083-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{114},
  editor =	{Stephan Winter and Amy Griffin and Monika Sester},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9399},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93997},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: spatial information extraction, geo-referencing, spatial reasoning}
}

Keywords: spatial information extraction, geo-referencing, spatial reasoning
Collection: 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 02.08.2018

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