Use of the Edinburgh geoparser for georeferencing digitized historical collections

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1925, 2010, Pages 3875-3889

  Grover, Claire ^a   Tobin, Richard ^a   Byrne, Kate ^a   Woollard, Matthew ^b   Reid, James ^c   Dunn, Stuart ^d   Ball, Julian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c EDINA   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digitized historical text; Geoparsing; Georeferencing; Information extraction; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; METADATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DIGITIZED HISTORICAL TEXT; GEOPARSING; GEOREFERENCING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 77956463864     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0149     Document Type: Article

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