Georeferencing wikipedia documents using data from social media sources

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Van Laere, Olivier ^a   Schockaert, Steven ^b   Tanasescu, Vlad ^b   Dhoedt, Bart ^c   Jones, Christopher B ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; Language models; Semistructured Data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES; LANGUAGE MODEL; PROBABILISTIC LANGUAGE; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; TEXTUAL INFORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84904724242     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2629685     Document Type: Article

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