Browsing by Author "Dos Santos Jr, Raimundo F."

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    A Framework for the Expansion of Spatial Features Based on Semantic Footprints
    Dos Santos Jr, Raimundo F.; Boedihardjo, Arnold P.; Lu, Chang-Tien (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2011)
    Geographic feature expansion is a common task in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Identifying and integrating geographic features is a challenging task since many of their spatial and non-spatial properties are described in different sources. We tackle this expansion problem by defining semantic footprints as a measure of similarity among features. Furthermore, we propose three quantifiers of semantic similarity: spatial, dimensional, and ontological affinity. We show how these measures dilute, concentrate, harden, or concede the feature space, and provide useful insights into the semantic relationships of the spatial entities. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in semantically associating the most appropriate spatial features.
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    Spatio-Temporal Storytelling on Twitter
    Dos Santos Jr, Raimundo F.; Shah, Sumit; Chen, Feng; Boedihardjo, Arnold P.; Butler, Patrick; Lu, Chang-Tien; Ramakrishnan, Naren (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2013-12-16)
    Social media, e.g.,Twitter, have provided us an unprecedented opportunity to observe events un-folding in real-time. The rapid pace at which situations play out on social media necessitates new tools for capturing and summarizing the spatio-temporal progression of events. This technical report describes methods for generating dynamic real-world storylines from Twitter Sources and shares the results of related experiments.