An evidence-based approach for toponym disambiguation

2010 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Xingguang ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Chen, Min ^a   Lin, Xing ^a   Yu, Hao ^a   Liu, Yu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

D S theory; Evidence; Semantic relations; Toponym disambiguation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING MODEL; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DIRECT IMPACT; DS THEORY; EVIDENCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HUMAN BEING; LINGUISTIC RULES; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; SEMANTIC RULES; SPATIAL INDICES; SYNTACTIC RULES; THEORY OF EVIDENCE; TOPONYM DISAMBIGUATION;

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77958051564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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