Automatic gazetteer enrichment with user-geocoded data

GEOCROWD 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 87-94

  Gelernter, Judith ^a   Ganesh, Gautam ^b   Krishnakumar, Hamsini ^c   Zhang, Wei ^a  

^a School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

approximate string match; fuzzy match; gazetteer enrichment; gazetteer expansion; geo tag; geographic information retrieval (GIR); location

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOCATION;

APPROXIMATE STRING MATCHES; FUZZY MATCH; GEO-TAGS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVALS (GIR); KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE; LEVEL LOCATION; LOCAL INFORMATION; RANKING MODEL;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84889645244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534732.2534736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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