Approximate string matching for geographic names and personal names

Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-60

  Davis Jr , Clodoveu A ^a   De Salles, Emerson ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE STRING MATCHING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATCHING STRINGS; PERSONAL NAMES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TEXTUAL DATA;

EID: 77957010567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21794847     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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