A web platform for the evaluation of vernacular place names in automatically constructed gazetteers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Twaroch, Florian A ^a   Jones, Christopher B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Gazetteer services; Vernacular place names

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; REFERENCE COLLECTIONS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77951461506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1722080.1722098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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