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WEBI
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Mining a Multilingual Geographical Gazetteer from the Web
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...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, Houda Bouamo...
ICDIM
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 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...
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. ...
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GIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Inferring Geographical Ontologies from Multiple Resources for Geographical Information Retrieval
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...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Piedachu Peris
GEOS
2009
Springer
15 years 2 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...