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GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2007
ACM
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...
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependent resources, except a gaze...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
The purpose of this paper is to automatically create multilingual translation lexicons with regional variations. We propose a transitive translation approach to determine translat...