A machine learning approach for resolving place references in text

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 221-236

  Martins, Bruno ^a   Anastácio, Ivo ^a   Calado, Pável ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION;

CHARACTER STRINGS; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GOLD STANDARDS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883129725     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12326-9_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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