Zones
- 6 Chicago Community Areas: Near North Side (8), West Town (24), The Loop (32), Near West Side (28), Near South Side (33), Lower West Side (31).
- Based upon the division of https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?msa=0&mid=zqLSkU3XYPyg.kAdNFe-Yq3dk
- Each zone border is approximated as a polygon. The polygon vertex is defined as a "Latitude, Longitude" pair. Polygon vertices are traversed in a counter-clockwise manner.
- "Near North Side (8)" polygon consists of 28 vertices; "West Town (24)" polygon consists of 18 vertices; "The Loop (32)" polygon consists of 14 vertices; "Near West (28)" polygon consists of 11 vertices; "Near South Side (33)" polygon consists of 13 vertices; "Lower West Side (31)" polygon consists of 11 vertices.



POIs
Places Of Interest (POIs) within the 6 zones above are selected from Yelp.
- "<category>": <instance(s)>

- "coffeehouse": 10 Starbucks; 10 coffee houses different from Starbucks.
- "restaurant": 5 non-Chinese restaurants.
- "chinese": 5 Chinese restaurants.
- "fast food": 12 fast food places.
- "bar": 10 bars.
- "theater": 6 theaters or cinemas.


Semantic Relatedness
- The semantic relatedness generating service is provided by http://marimba.d.umn.edu/cgi-bin/similarity/similarity.cgi
- Generate semantic relatedness for each pair of categories above using 3 different standards: "Leacock & Chodorow", "Wu & Palmer" and "Resnik", respectively.
- The semantic relatedness for each pair of instances is equal to the semantic relatedness of categories that they belong to.
