| Autores: | Davide Buscaldi (Ph.D. student) and Paolo Rosso |
| URL: | http://www.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle/resources/geo-wn/download.html |
| Contacto: | Davide Buscaldi <dbuscaldi |
dsic.upv.es>Descripción
This is a semi-automatically generated mapping from WordNet 2.0 to geographical coordinates.
Funcionalidad
It allows to assign a point in the map (geo-reference) to all WordNet synsets that are related to a geographical entity.
Tecnología
It was developed using a MySQL database and WordNet, however it is merely a list of WordNet synsets and their coordinates.
Requisitos técnicos
It requires WordNet 2.0 in order to be used.
Módulos
Innovación
This is the first time that an effort is done to connect WordNet to geographical databases, therefore connecting two different type of research communities (Natural Language research groups with GIS research groups).
Desarrollo
Developed as part of the MiDES CICYT TIN2006-15265-C06-04 research project, co-funded by the AECI-PCI A01031707 project.
Publicaciones
Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso, Geo-WordNet: Automatic Georeferencing of WordNet. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.