Volume 28, Issue 5 pp. 1313-1325
RESEARCH ARTICLE

GEUKE: A geographic entities uniformly explicit knowledge embedding model

Yongquan Yang

Yongquan Yang

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China

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Dehui Kong

Dehui Kong

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China

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Min Cao

Corresponding Author

Min Cao

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China

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Min Cao, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.

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Min Chen

Min Chen

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China

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First published: 28 May 2024
Citations: 2

Abstract

Knowledge embedding for geographic knowledge graphs can effectively improve computational efficiency and provide support for knowledge reasoning, knowledge answering and other applications of knowledge graphs. To maintain a more comprehensive understanding of spatial features through knowledge embedding, it is crucial to integrate the representation and computation of various entity types, encompassing points, lines, and polygons. This article proposes a geographic entities uniformly explicit knowledge embedding model (GEUKE). In GEUKE, spatial data of point, line, and polygon-type geographic entities are expressed in the form of subgraphs, and space embedding is generated using a SubGNN-based uniform spatial feature encoder. GEUKE improves the energy function in TransE to train spatial feature-based embedding and structural-based embedding of geographic entities into a unified vector space. Experimental results show that GEUKE has higher performance than TransE, TransH, TransD, and TransE-GDR on link prediction and triple classification task. Within the spatial feature embedding process, GEUKE effectively preserves the inherent features of entities, encompassing location, neighborhood, and structural attributes, while simultaneously ensuring a coherent spatial data representation across all three entity types: points, lines, and polygons. By maintaining the spatial features of geographic entities and their interrelations, this capability unleashes the full potential of applications such as knowledge reasoning and geospatial question answering in a manner that is conducive to diverse geospatial scenarios.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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