Discovering Location Indicators of toponyms from news to improve Gazetteer-based geo-referencing

Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 51-62

  Gouvêa, Cleber ^a   Loh, Stanley ^a,b   Garcia, Luís Fernando Fortes ^b,c   Da Fonseca, Evandro Brasil ^a   Wendt, Igor ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^c Faculdade Dom Bosco   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GEOREFERENCING;

EID: 84870517965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21794847     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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