The similarity jury: Combining expert judgements on geographic concepts

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7518 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-240

  Ballatore, Andrea ^a   Wilson, David C ^b   Bertolotto, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert judgement; Geo semantics; Lexical similarity; Semantic similarity; WordNet

Indexed keywords

EXPERT JUDGEMENT; GEO-SEMANTICS; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84868325199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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