Structured toponym resolution using combined hierarchical place categories

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 49-56

  Adelfio, Marco D ^a   Samet, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Geotagging; Structured data extraction; Toponym resolution

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONTAINERS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

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

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893916042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2533888.2533931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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