An algorithm for local geoparsing of microtext

GeoInformatica

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 635-667

  Gelernter, Judith ^a   Balaji, Shilpa ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Geo IR or GIR; Geographic information retrieval; Geoparse; Local search; Location; Microblogs; Microtext; Social media; Toponym; Twitter

Indexed keywords

GEO-IR OR GIR; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOPARSE; LOCAL SEARCH; MICROBLOGS; MICROTEXT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOPONYM; TWITTER;

DATA MINING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING; DATA MINING; GIS; HEURISTICS; MASS MEDIA; SOFTWARE; TOPONYMY; URBAN AREA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84883133313     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-012-0173-8     Document Type: Article

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