Assessing Semantic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions (1999)
| Venue: | Interoperating Geographic Information Systems INTEROP99 |
| Citations: | 27 - 8 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Rodríguez99assessingsemantic,
author = {M. Andrea Rodríguez and Max J. Egenhofer and Robert D. Rugg},
title = {Assessing Semantic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions},
booktitle = {Interoperating Geographic Information Systems INTEROP99},
year = {1999},
pages = {189--202},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
The assessment of semantic similarity among objects is a basic requirement for semantic interoperability. This paper presents an innovative approach to semantic similarity assessment by combining the advantages of two different strategies: featurematching process and semantic distance calculation. The model involves a knowledge base of spatial concepts that consists of semantic relations (is-a and part-whole) and distinguishing features (functions, parts, and attributes). By taking into consideration cognitive properties of similarity assessments, this model expects to represent a cognitively plausible and computationally achievable method for measuring the degree of interoperability.
