Building a Geographical Ontology by Using Wikipedia

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Building a Geographical Ontology by Using Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Quoc Hung-Ngo, Son Doan and Werner Winiwarter.

Overview

This paper introduces an approach to build a geographical ontology of countries at the global scale. Authors approach is based on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia to extract lists of places, then rebuild a hierarchy and relationships among extracted places.