Building a geographical ontology by using Wikipedia

Authors:
Quoc Hung-Ngo;Son Doan;Werner Winiwarter
Affiliations:
University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University-HCM City;National Institute of Informatics, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo;University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Venue:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper introduces an approach to build a geographical ontology of countries at the global scale. Our approach is based on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia to extract lists of places, then rebuild a hierarchy and relationships among extracted places.