GeoSR: Geographically explore semantic relations in world knowledge

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Methods to determine the semantic relatedness (SR) value between two lexically expressed entities abound in the field of natural language processing (NLP). The goal of such efforts is to identify a single measure that summarizes the number and strength of the relationships between the two entities. In this paper, we present GeoSR, the first adaptation of SR methods to the context of geographic data exploration. By combining the first use of a knowledge repository structure that is replete with non-classical relations, a new means of explaining those relations to users, and the novel application of SR measures to a geographic reference system, GeoSR allows users to geographically navigate and investigate the world knowledge encoded in Wikipedia. There are numerous visualization and interaction paradigms possible with GeoSR; we present one implementation as a proof-of-concept and discuss others. Although, Wikipedia is used as the knowledge repository for our implementation, GeoSR will also work with any knowledge repository having a similar set of properties.

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Hecht, B., & Raubal, M. (2008). GeoSR: Geographically explore semantic relations in world knowledge. In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (pp. 95–113). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_6

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