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标题：The semantics of place-related questions
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作者：Werner Kuhn ; Werner Kuhn ; Ehsan Hamzei 等
期刊名称：Journal of Spatial Information Science
电子版ISSN：1948-660X
出版年度：2021
期号：23
页码：157-168
DOI：10.5311/JOSIS.2021.23.161
语种：English
出版社：The University of Maine
摘要：The trend to equip information systems with question-answering capabilities raises the design problem of deciding which questions a system should be able to answer. Typical solutions build on mining human conversations or logs from similar systems for question patterns. For the case of questions about geographic places, we present a complementary approach, showing how to derive possible questions from an ontology of spatial information and a classification of place facets. We argue that such an approach reduces the inherent and substantial data bias of current solutions. At a more general level, we provide a novel understanding of spatial questions and their role in designing and using spatial information systems.