Geotagging: Using proximity, sibling, and prominence clues to understand comma groups

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lieberman, Michael D ^a   Samet, Hanan ^a   Sankaranayananan, Jagan ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Comma groups; Geotagging; Toponyms

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISTANCE-BASED; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; NEWS ARTICLES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77951482160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1722080.1722088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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