Cross-lingual geo-parsing for non-structured data

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 64-71

  Gelernter, Judith ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cross language geographic information retrieval (CLGIR); Geo parse; Georeference; Location; Microtext; Spanish; Translation; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LOCATION; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

GEO-PARSE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOREFERENCE; MICROTEXT; SPANISH; TWITTER;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893902694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2533888.2533943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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