标题：Geospatial Information Categories Mapping in a Cross-lingual Environment: A Case Study of "Surface Water" Categories in Chinese and American Topographic Maps作者：Kuai, Xi; Li, Lin; Luo, Heng; Hang, Shen; Zhang, Zhijun; Liu, Yu

来源出版物：ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION 卷：5 期：6 DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5060090 出版年：JUN 2016

摘要：The need for integrating geospatial information (GI) data from various heterogeneous sources has seen increased importance for geographic information system (GIS) interoperability. Using domain ontologies to clarify and integrate the semantics of data is considered as a crucial step for successful semantic integration in the GI domain. Nevertheless, mechanisms are still needed to facilitate semantic mapping between GI ontologies described in different natural languages. This research establishes a formal ontology model for cross-lingual geospatial information ontology mapping. By first extracting semantic primitives from a free-text definition of categories in two GI classification standards with different natural languages, an ontology-driven approach is used, and a formal ontology model is established to formally represent these semantic primitives into semantic statements, in which the spatial-related properties and relations are considered as crucial statements for the representation and identification of the semantics of the GI categories. Then, an algorithm is proposed to compare these semantic statements in a cross-lingual environment. We further design a similarity calculation algorithm based on the proposed formal ontology model to distance the semantic similarities and identify the mapping relationships between categories. In particular, we work with two GI classification standards for Chinese and American topographic maps. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of the proposed model for cross-lingual geospatial information ontology mapping.

入藏号：WOS:000379861200017

文献类型：Article

语种：English

作者关键词：geographic information systems, semantic interoperability, cross-lingual, lightweight ontology, topographic map

扩展关键词：SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; DIGITAL EARTH; ONTOLOGY; GIS; INTEGRATION; SIMILARITY; WEB

通讯作者地址：Li, L, Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址：kuaixi@whu.edu.cn; lilin@whu.edu.cn; luoheng@whu.edu.cn; acyrt@163.com; zhangzhijun@whu.edu.cn; liuyu_whu@foxmail.com

地址：

[Kuai, Xi; Li, Lin; Luo, Heng; Hang, Shen; Liu, Yu] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Zhang, Zhijun] Tianjin Inst Surveying & Mapping, Tianjin 300381, Peoples R China.

研究方向：Physical Geography; Remote Sensing

ISSN：2220-9964

影响因子：0.651