Geographical classification of documents using evidence from Wikipedia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Odon De Alencar, Rafael ^a   Davis Jr , Clodoveu Augusto ^a   Gonçalves, Marcos André ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; Geospatial evidence; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; DATA SETS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; SEARCH RESULTS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; WIKIPEDIA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TEXT PROCESSING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77951466127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1722080.1722096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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