Gazetiki: Automatic creation of a geographical gazetteer

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-93

  Popescu, Adrian ^a   Grefenstette, Gregory ^a   Moëllic, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Data mining; Geographic gazetteer; Information extraction; Panoramio; Thesaurus; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIBRARIES; THESAURI; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC GAZETTEER; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; PANORAMIO; THESAURUS; WIKIPEDIA;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 57649223705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378889.1378906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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