Geometrical information fusion from WWW and its related information

  • Authors:
  • Yasuhiko Morimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

  • Venue:
  • DNIS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Databases in networked information systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We considered a spatial data mining method that extracts spatial knowledge by computing geometrical patterns from web pages and access log files of HTTP servers. There are many web pages that contain location information such as addresses, postal codes, and telephone numbers. We can collect such web pages by web-crawling programs. For each page determined to contain location information, we apply geocoding techniques to compute geographic coordinates, such as latitude-longitude pairs. Next, we augment the location information with keyword descriptors extracted from the web page contents. We then apply spatial data mining techniques on the augmented location information. In addition, we can use hyperlinks and access log files to find linkage between pages with location information to derive spatial knowledge.