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Grounding Linked Open Data in WordNet: The Case of the OSM Semantic Network

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Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2013)

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In recent years, the open data (LOD) paradigm has emerged as a promising approach to structuring, publishing, and sharing data online, using Semantic Web standards. From a geospatial perspective, one of the key challenges consists of bridging the gap between the vast amount of crowdsourced, semi-structured or unstructured geo-information and the Semantic Web. Notably, OpenStreetMap (OSM) has gathered billions of objects from its contributors in a spatial folksonomy. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we add a piece to the LOD jigsaw, the OSM Semantic Network, structuring it as a W3C Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabulary, and discussing its role in the constellation of geo-knowledge bases. Second, we devise Voc2WordNet, a mapping approach between a given vocabulary and WordNet, a pivotal component in the LOD cloud. Our approach is evaluated on the OSM Semantic Network against a human-generated alignment, obtaining high precision and recall.

The research presented in this paper was funded by a Strategic Research Cluster grant (07/SRC/I1168) by Science Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan. The authors gratefully acknowledge this support.

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    Andrea Ballatore & Michela Bertolotto

  2. Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA

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Ballatore, A., Bertolotto, M., Wilson, D.C. (2013). Grounding Linked Open Data in WordNet: The Case of the OSM Semantic Network. In: Liang, S.H.L., Wang, X., Claramunt, C. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7820. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37087-8_1

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