Mining Topological Relations from the Web

• Published in: 2008 19th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications pp. 652 - 656
• Main Authors: Schockaert, S., Smart, P.D., Abdelmoty, A.I., Jones, C.B.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2008
• Subjects: Accuracy; Cities and towns; Cognition; Distance measurement; Heating; Knowledge based systems; Roads

Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by analysing natural language information from Web documents. In particular, we demonstrate how redundancy-based techniques...