Axeleratio

Exploring localities and ambiguous terms
A locality is a neighborhood. In a broader sense, it is a place in space with vaguely defined boundaries. The term can refer to a geographic district, but also to a region in n-dimensional space; representing, say, material-property data. Like the word “locality,” diverse “innocent-looking” terms with multiple, domain-specific meaning are populating the scientific literature.

Further, we derive domain-specific dictionaries and glossaries for ontology building. Semantic processing of geographic terms teaches us how to automatically pinpoint names to maps—using the Explore Reno-Tahoe entries as a corpus. To associate nanostructure and material terms with synthesis and property information, we apply CurlySMILES as an interface.