GIS-KG: building a large-scale hierarchical knowledge graph for geographic information science
Jiaxin Du, Shaohua Wang, Xinyue Ye, Diana Sinton, Karen K. Kemp
Abstract
An organized knowledge base can facilitate the exploration of existing knowledge and the detection of emerging topics in a domain. Knowledge about and around Geographic Information Science and its associated system technologies (GIS) is complex, extensive and emerging rapidly. Taking the challenge, we built a GIS knowledge graph (GIS-KG) by (1) merging existing GIS bodies of knowledge to create a hierarchical ontology and then (2) applying deep-learning methods to map GIS publications to the ontology. We conducted several experiments on information retrieval to evaluate the novelty and effectiveness of the GIS-KG. Results showed the robust support of GIS-KG for knowledge search of existing GIS topics and potential to explore emerging research themes.