Concepts, compass and computation: models for directional part-whole relationships

Authors:
Gaurav Singh;Rolf A. de By;Ivana Ivánová
Affiliations:
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Venue:
ICCSA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part II
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We present a conceptual framework and computational mechanism to allow the interpretation of text phrases such as "in southeastern Bahia," and "in central Goiás" as spatial features in GIS context. The framework recognises different notions of centre, central sector and outer sector, from which a variety of interpretation models is derived. We subsequently evaluate these models for the performance characteristics of precision and recall, against a digitised, natural history gazetteer for Brazil, and draw conclusions on the cognition of, and computation with directional part-whole relationships.