Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1045-1065

  Jones, C B ^a   Purves, R S ^b   Clough, P D ^c   Joho, H ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gazetteers; Geo parsing; Geographical information retrieval; Surface modelling; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; MODELING; PLACE NAME; TERMINOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 50449099718     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810701850547     Document Type: Article

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