The role of gazetteers in geographic knowledge discovery on the Web

Proceedings - Third Latin American Web Congress, LA-WEB 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 157-165

  Souza, Ligiane A ^a   Davis Jr , Clodoveu A ^b   Borges, Karla A V ^a,c   Delboni, Tiago M ^a   Laender, Alberto H F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Prodabel Empresa de Informatica e Informacao do Municipio de Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOGIC DESIGN; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA QUALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DATABASES; ONTOLOGY; WEB DOCUMENTS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33847011766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWEB.2005.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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