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GIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 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...
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 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. ...
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
GIR Experimentation
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...
Geoffrey Andogah
W2GIS
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 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. ...