Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:637492, abstract = {A geo-ontology has a key role to play in the development of a spatially-aware search engine, with regard to providing support for query disambiguation, query term expansion, relevance ranking and web resource annotation. This paper reviews these functions, discusses the user requirements which influence the design of the ontology, with regard to different types of query and fundamental spatial concepts, before presenting a base model for a geographical ontology which will provide a foundation for subsequent implementation as well as experimentation with alternative ontology models. The report also reviews various ontology languages available for expressing ontologies and give examples for encoding the geo-ontology in them.}, author = {Jones, Christopher B. and Abdelmoty, Alia I. and Fu, Gaihua}, citeulike-article-id = {637492}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.geo-spirit.org/publications/SPIRIT_maintaining_ontologies.pdf}, journal = {On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE}, keywords = {geographical, information, ontologies, retrieval}, pages = {934--951}, posted-at = {2006-05-16 19:49:22}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg}, title = {Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web}, url = {http://www.geo-spirit.org/publications/SPIRIT_maintaining_ontologies.pdf}, volume = {2888 / 2003}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:637492 L3 - citeulike-article-id:637492 N2 - A geo-ontology has a key role to play in the development of a spatially-aware search engine, with regard to providing support for query disambiguation, query term expansion, relevance ranking and web resource annotation. This paper reviews these functions, discusses the user requirements which influence the design of the ontology, with regard to different types of query and fundamental spatial concepts, before presenting a base model for a geographical ontology which will provide a foundation for subsequent implementation as well as experimentation with alternative ontology models. The report also reviews various ontology languages available for expressing ontologies and give examples for encoding the geo-ontology in them. JF - On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE EP - 951 TI - Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web PB - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg VL - 2888 / 2003 SP - 934 KW - geographical KW - information KW - ontologies KW - retrieval AU - Jones, Christopher AU - Abdelmoty, Alia AU - Fu, Gaihua PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.geo-spirit.org/publications/SPIRIT_maintaining_ontologies.pdf ER -