Mining a multilingual geographical gazetteer from the Web

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 58-65

  Popescu, Adrian ^a   Grefenstette, Gregory ^b   Bouamor, Houda ^c  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b Exalead ^*  (France)

^c UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECTS; HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES; MANUAL PROCESS; WIKIPEDIA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 79951746384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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