SpatialML: Annotation scheme, resources, and evaluation

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-280

  Mani, Inderjeet ^a   Doran, Christy ^a   Harris, Dave ^a   Hitzeman, Janet ^a   Quimby, Rob ^a   Richer, Justin ^a   Wellner, Ben ^a   Mardis, Scott ^a   Clancy, Seamus ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Annotation; Evaluation; Geography; Guidelines; Information extraction; Spatial language

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955684249     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-010-9121-0     Document Type: Article

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