Acquisition of vernacular place names from web sources

Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-214

  Twaroch, Florian A ^a   Jones, Christopher B ^a   Abdelmoty, Alia I ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00570-1_10     Document Type: Chapter

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