Content-Based Discovery for Web Map Service using Support Vector Machine and User Relevance Feedback

PLoS One. 2016 Nov 18;11(11):e0166098. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166098. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Many discovery methods for geographic information services have been proposed. There are approaches for finding and matching geographic information services, methods for constructing geographic information service classification schemes, and automatic geographic information discovery. Overall, the efficiency of the geographic information discovery keeps improving., There are however, still two problems in Web Map Service (WMS) discovery that must be solved. Mismatches between the graphic contents of a WMS and the semantic descriptions in the metadata make discovery difficult for human users. End-users and computers comprehend WMSs differently creating semantic gaps in human-computer interactions. To address these problems, we propose an improved query process for WMSs based on the graphic contents of WMS layers, combining Support Vector Machine (SVM) and user relevance feedback. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the accuracy and efficiency of WMS discovery.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Feedback*
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Internet*
  • Maps as Topic
  • Support Vector Machine*
  • User-Computer Interface

Grants and funding

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371372, No. 41501434 and No. 41501443). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision and publish, or preparation of the manuscript.