Annotation of Spatial Relations in Natural language

被引：5

作者：

Shen, Qijun ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Xueying ^{[1
]}

Jiang, Wenming ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Nanjing Normal Univ, Key Lab Virtual Geog Environm, MOE, Nanjing, Peoples R China

来源：

2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND INFORMATION APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY, VOL III, PROCEEDINGS, | 2009年

关键词：

spatial relation; natural language; annotation;

D O I：

10.1109/ESIAT.2009.429

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

Natural language spatial relations have drawn much attention in recent years for bridging the gap between natural language and geographical information systems. Annotating spatial relations in corpora is the precondition for resolution of geographical information in text. This paper proposes an annotation scheme for marking expressions of spatial relations in natural language. This scheme is based on a hierarchical classification of geographical feature types and spatial relations. An annotation approach is illustrated with examples of Chinese text, and finally the natural language processing tool GATE is used to test the proposed scheme. This work can be useful for disambiguation of natural language spatial relations, integration of natural language with GIS services and spatial reasoning.

引用

页码：418 / 421

页数：4