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Enhanced Place Name Search Using Semantic Gazetteers, Nagalakshmy Vijayasankaran
Enhanced Place Name Search Using Semantic Gazetteers, Nagalakshmy Vijayasankaran
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With the increased availability of geospatial data and efficient geo-referencing services, people are now more likely to engage in geospatial searches for information on the Web. Searching by address is supported by geocoding which converts an address to a geographic coordinate. Addresses are one form of geospatial referencing that are relatively well understood and easy for people to use, but place names are generally the most intuitive natural language expressions that people use for locations. This thesis presents an approach, for enhancing place name searches with a geo-ontology and a semantically enabled gazetteer. This approach investigates the extension of general …