From text to landscape: Locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1272-1293

  Derungs, Curdin ^a   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ethnophysiography; geographic information retrieval; landscape description; landscape terms; toponym disambiguation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901441073     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.772184     Document Type: Article

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