Assessment of the accuracy of GeoNames gazetteer data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 74-81

  Ahlers, Dirk ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data quality; Entity reconciliation; Gazetteer; Geocoding; Positional accuracy; Source integration

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; ENTITY RECONCILIATION; GAZETTEER; GEO CODING; POSITIONAL ACCURACY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893965764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2533888.2533938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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