Building a Geographical Ontology by Using Wikipedia
Authors | Quoc Hung-Ngo Son Doan Werner Winiwarter |
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Publication date | 2011 |
DOI | 10.1145/2095536.2095600 |
Links | Original |
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.
