Using co-occurrence models for placename disambiguation

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 265-287

  Overell, Simon ^a   Rüger, Stefan ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co occurrence; Disambiguation; Geographic information retrieval; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

GIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MODELING; PLACE NAME; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 41049114803     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810701626236     Document Type: Article

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