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The growing availability of GPS and localization technologies opens up new challenges regarding the use of position information for Location Based Services. As a side effect, several research questions arise, one of which we consider in this paper: “What is the meaning of place?”. Here, we present two ongoing projects that we believe can contribute to the answer. The first regards the semantic enrichment of place, starting from a simple description of the place towards a concept network; the second focuses the natural language description of this network, as a final output to the user. We present these two projects, focus on their intersection and give an example of the end results.
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Alves, A., Hervás, R., Pereira, F.C., Gervás, P., Bento, C. (2007). Conceptual Enrichment of Locations Pointed Out by the User. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74819-9_43
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