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2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Geo-tagging for imprecise regions of different sizes
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Cultural Heritage: Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents
This article presents the use of NLP techniques (text mining, text analysis) to develop specific tools that allow to create linguistic resources related to the cultural heritage d...
Eva Sassolini, Alessandra Cinini
ICDIM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A geo-temporal Web gazetteer integrating data from multiple sources
This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geotemporal information. With...
Hugo Manguinhas, Bruno Martins, José Luis B...