Usually ambiguous words contained in article appear several times. Almost all existing methods for unsupervised word sense disambiguation make use of information contained only in ambiguous sentence. This paper presents a novel approach by considering neighborhood knowledge. The approach can naturally make full use of the within-sentence relationship from the ambiguous sentence and cross-senten...

1. introduction development of tourism activities is one of the important topics in sustainable development and it has been introduced as a dynamic and growing industry. so, providing a suitable platform for identifying tourist attractions and planning for development them is an essential issue. also, recognition of these attractions and natural talents in each region in order to make proper pl...

Geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems and remote sensing have been increasingly used in public health settings since the 1990s, but application of these methods in humanitarian emergencies has been less documented. Recent areas of application of GIS methods in humanitarian emergencies include hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments; rapid assessment and survey met...

• Comprehensive GIS approach for spatial assessment of agricultural biogas production. Biogas production potentials are strongly influenced by considered criteria. Foresighted planning could improve heat utilization from plants. Greenhouse gas emissions biomass transport negligible compared to benefits. Agricultural is subject various restrictions including legislation, availability, transport,...

Real world data can be difficult to classify due to overlapping classes of ambiguous data. One solution to this problem is to leave out data before classifying, while another solution is to first classify the data and then prune those results which are ambiguous. However, a problem exists in determining which data are ambiguous. In this paper we propose a performance criteria which gives a prec...

A strategic approach to guide sustainable development of South Gippsland Shire in Victoria (Australia) initiated application of GIS methods in concert with data and experts. Two major models have been developed by the Strategic Resources Planning team at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment using ArcView ModelBuilder to map suitability for agricultural and urban land use. Both mo...

This paper presents a study on accessibility analysis for public housing development in Choa Chu Kang/Bukit Panjang area, Singapore, using geographical information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis methods. GIS is used to measure accessibility to different types of facilities and amenities, while a multi-criteria method is employed to weight buyers’ preferences about the importance of e...