Mining the web for points of interest

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 711-720

  Rae, Adam ^a   Murdock, Vanessa ^a   Popescu, Adrian ^b   Bouchard, Hugues ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

geo localisation; geographic information extraction; location based applications; points of interest

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP TRAINING; FREE TEXTS; GEO-LOCALISATION; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HISTORICAL BUILDINGS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS; ONLINE SOURCES; POINT OF INTEREST; POINTS OF INTEREST; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATE OF THE ART; TRAINING DATA; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84866603643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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