Place Enrichment by Mining the Web

Authors

Ana Cristina da Costa Oliveira Alves
Francisco Câmara Pereira
Assaf Biderman
Carlo Ratti

Abstract

In this paper, we address the assignment of semantics to places. The approach followed consists on leveraging from web online resources that are directly or indirectly related to places as well as from the integration with lexical and semantic frameworks such as Wordnet or Semantic Web ontologies.
We argue for the wide applicability and validity of this approach to the area of Ubiquitous Computing, particularly for Context Awareness. We present our system, KUSCO, which searches for semantics associations to a given Point Of Interest (POI). Particular focus is provided to the experimentation and validation aspects.

Keywords

Information Extraction, Ambient Intelligence, Semantics of Place

Subject

Ambient Intelligence

Related Project

CityMotion (MITPortugal Program)

Conference

3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, November 2009

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