Extracting spatial information from place descriptions

COMP 2013 - ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 62-69

  Khan, Arbaz ^a   Vasardani, Maria ^b   Winter, Stephan ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Locative expressions; Place descriptions; Spatial language understanding; Spatial role labelling; Triplets

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; GRAPH REPRESENTATION; LOCATIVE EXPRESSIONS; MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES; PLACE DESCRIPTIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; TRIPLETS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 84889831620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534848.2534857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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