Adaptive context features for toponym resolution in streaming news

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 731-740

  Lieberman, Michael D ^a   Samet, Hanan ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive context; geotagging; machine learning; streaming news; toponym resolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTEXT; ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; FEATURE COMPUTATION; GEOTAGGING; LARGE DATASETS; NEWS SOURCES; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866626312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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