Ontology-driven discovery of geospatial evidence in web pages

GeoInformatica

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 609-631

  Borges, Karla A V ^a,b   Davis Jr , Clodoveu A ^b   Laender, Alberto H F ^b   Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer ^c  

^a PRODABEL Empresa de Informática e Informação do Municipio de Belo Horizonte ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extraction ontologies; Geocoding; Geographic information retrieval; Geospatial evidence in text; Positioning expressions

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION ONTOLOGIES; GEO CODING; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POSITIONING EXPRESSIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ONTOLOGY; POSTAL SERVICES; SEARCH ENGINES; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

FEASIBILITY STUDY; GIS; PLACE NAME; POSITIONING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 80053051080     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-010-0118-z     Document Type: Article

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