A Semantic Retrieval System for Remote Sensing Web Platforms

[en] This paper proposes a solution to reduce the semantic gap between final users and data/processing providers in a web market place dedicated to remote sensing products. Nowadays, search engine are common tools on the Internet. Users are accustomed to use them and used to get tabular classification of provided answers. These smart agents are set up to answer basic questions using automatic pages redirection or chitchat. In this research, to ensure coherence between user’s requests and platform answers, natural language processing algorithms and knowledge graphs are integrated within a web platform thanks to a NoSQL graph database connected to open thesauri and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Therefore, the most pertinent services can be proposed based on input sentences including non-technical vocabulary but also geographical components (the user interface includes a text area and an interactive map). While processing chains and remote sensing ontologies were presented in one of our previous studies, this article focuses on natural languages algorithms and knowledge mining.

Research Center/Unit :

Geomatics Unit

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

Nys, Gilles-Antoine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Unité de Géomatique - Topographie et géométrologie

Kasprzyk, Jean-Paul ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Serv. d'étude en géographie éco. fond. et appliquée (Segefa)

Hallot, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'Architecture > Relevé, étude et représentation géom. et du patrimoine bâti

Billen, Roland ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Unité de Géomatique - Topographie et géométrologie

Language :

English

Title :

A Semantic Retrieval System for Remote Sensing Web Platforms

Publication date :

05 June 2019

Event name :

ISPRS GeoSpatial Week 2019

Event organizer :

ISPRS

Event place :

Enschede, Netherlands

Event date :

from 10-06-25019 to 14-06-2019

By request :

Yes

Audience :

International

Journal title :

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

ISSN :

1682-1750

eISSN :

2194-9034

Publisher :

Copernicus, Goettingen, Germany

Special issue title :

C3M&GBD

Volume :

XLII-2

Issue :

W13

Pages :

1593-1599

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Name of the research project :

EORegions_Science

Funders :

BELSPO - Politique scientifique fédérale

Available on ORBi :

since 12 July 2019

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