GeoWhiz: Toponym resolution using common categories

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 522-525

  Adelfio, Marco D ^a   Samet, Hanan ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

geotagging; structured data extraction; toponym resolution

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DATA TABLES; GEO-TAGGING; MAP INTERFACES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PLACE NAME DISAMBIGUATION; STRUCTURED DATA; TOPONYM RESOLUTIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONTAINERS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893503010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2525314.2525321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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