A hybrid semantic similarity measure for spatial information retrieval

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-63

  Schwering, Angela ^a   Kuhn, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive semantics; Semantic similarity measurement; Spatial information retrieval

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; SEMANTIC DESCRIPTIONS; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASUREMENT; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SPATIAL INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; SYNTACTIC SIMILARITIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY PROCESSING; SYNTACTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 72549094873     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860802645087     Document Type: Article

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