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GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Mining the web to detect place names
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...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...
FLAIRS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval with Graph-Based Qualitative Reference Models
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder
LREC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Named Entity Recognition for Digitised Historical Texts
We describe and evaluate a prototype system for recognising person and place names in digitised records of British parliamentary proceedings from the late 17th and early 19th cent...
Claire Grover, Sharon Givon, Richard Tobin, Julian...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
115views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
William W. Cohen
GEOS
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags
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...
Carsten Keßler, Patrick Maué, Jan Tor...
ERCIMDL
2003
Springer
124views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2003»
13 years 8 months ago
A Digital GeoLibrary: Integrating Keywords and Place Names
A digital library typically includes a set of keywords (or subject terms) for each document in its collection(s). For some applications, including natural resource management, geog...
Mathew Weaver, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Leonard D. Sh...