WIKIPEDIA ENTRIES AS A SOURCE OF CAR NAVIGATION LANDMARKS

Harvesting Wiki Consensus - Using Wikipedia Entries as Ontology Elements

One major obstacle towards adding machine-readable annotation to existing Web content is the lack of domain ontologies. While FOAF and Dublin Core are popular means for expressing relationships between Web resources and between Web resources and literal values, we widely lack unique identifiers for common concepts and instances. Also, most available ontologies have a very weak community groundi...

Wikipedia as Multilingual Source of Comparable Corpora

This article describes an automatic method to build comparable corpora from Wikipedia using Categories as topic restrictions. Our strategy relies of the fact Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopedia containing semi-structured information. Given two languages and a particular topic, our strategy builds a corpus with texts in the two selected languages, whose content is focused on the selected to...

Navigation by Isolated Landmarks

In this paper we propose and demonstrate a simple method for navigation in a large unstructured environment that contains featureless objects, which uses \isolated" landmarks in the navigator's view. The map-maker and navigator are implemented using an IBM 7575 SCARA robot arm, the PIPE (Pipelined Image Processing Engine), and two cameras. The navigational environment consists of a at plane wit...

Navigation using natural landmarks

Roboti Navigation Using Landmarks