Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP100200199
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Talking about place: tapping human knowledge to enrich national spatial data sets. Place descriptions are a common way for people to describe a location, but no current tools are smart enough to understand them. Emergency call centres are risking lives, users of navigation or web services are frustrated and addressing these problems costs billions of dollars per year. This project comes with a novel, interdisciplinary approach to automatically interpret human place descriptions and will develop novel methods to capture placenames with their meaning for smarter databases and automatic interpretation procedures. This acquired knowledge will be an important step forward for Australia's data custodians and users. Australia's location information industry will gain a significant advantage on a highly competitive global market.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2011
End Date: 09-2015
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geospatial Information Systems | Computational Linguistics | Geomatic Engineering | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Information Retrieval and Web Search | Natural Language Processing
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Industry Costs and Structure | Information Processing Services (incl. Data Entry and Capture) | Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services |
