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WEBI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Geographical gazetteers are necessary in a wide variety of applications. In the past, the construction of such gazetteers has been a tedious, manual process and only recently have...
ICDIM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
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...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Many documents that can be found in the World Wide Web include some kind of geographical information, often in an implicit way. The use of resources like gazetteers and geographic...
GEOS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...