A common sense geographic knowledge base for GIR

Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 26-37

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Gao, Yong ^a   Xue, LuLu ^a   Shen, Si ^a   Chen, KaiChen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Common sense geographic knowledge base; Geographic information retrieval; Geographic ontology

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PAPER; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE (BK); COMMON SENSE; CURRENT STATE; DIRECT MODELING; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS; HUMAN BRAINS; ITS DATA; KNOWLEDGE BASE (KB); NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION (NER); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP ('MA' PERCEPTIVE DISTANCE); SPATIO TEMPORAL REASONING; SPRINGER (CO);

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 44949118777     PISSN: 10069321     EISSN: 1862281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-008-5003-8     Document Type: Article

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