Maintaining Relational Consistency in a Graph-Based Place Database
H Chen, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter · CEUR Workshop Proceedings · 2015
People use natural language (NL) descriptions to communicate spatial information, mostly referring to space in qualitative terms. In this research, a graph database is used to store such qualitative spatial information as derived from NL descriptions. It focuses on developing and testing qualitative spatial reasoning mechanisms to maintain relational consistency within the graph database. The study provides a first step into using a graph database to storing and querying qualitative spatial data from NL place descriptions, and provides some insights for the system implementation.