Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 6th International and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007+ASWC2007)

by Eero Hyvönen, Robin Lindroos, Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson

Geographic place names are widely used but are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) that are instances of several geographical classes, such as Island, Forest, Peninsula, Inhabited area, etc. Referencing unambiguously to a particular "Isosaari", either when annotating content or during information retrieval, can be quite problematic and requires usage of advanced search methods and maps for semantic disambiguation. This paper presents an ontology server, ONKI-Paikka, for solving the place finding and place name disambiguation problem. In ONKI-Paikka, places can be found by a faceted search engine, combined with semantic autocompletion and a map service for constraining search and for visualizing results. The service can be connected to legacy applications cost-effectively by using Ajax-technology in the same spirit as Google Maps that is used in ONKI-Paikka as a subservice.

An Ontology Service for Geographical Content was presented at this event.

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/tracks/posters-demos/papers/372
Same as: http://revyu.com/things/iswc-aswc-2007-posters-demos-paper-372-an-ontology

Explore this resource elsewhere:

• on Snorql
• on Sindice
• on dotAC Explorer