Evaluation of georeferencing

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tobin, Richard ^a   Grover, Claire ^a   Byrne, Kate ^a   Reid, James ^a   Walsh, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Georeferencing; Named entity recognition; Toponym resolution

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION METHOD; GEOREFERENCE; GEOREFERENCING; GOLD STANDARDS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951442849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1722080.1722089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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