Automatically analyzing large texts in a GIS environment: The registrar general's reports and cholera in the 19th century

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 296-320

  Murrieta Flores, Patricia ^a   Baron, Alistair ^b   Gregory, Ian ^c   Hardie, Andrew ^d   Rayson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DISEASES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

19TH CENTURY; CASE-STUDIES; CENSUS DATA; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEXTUAL PATTERNS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; GIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIAL HISTORY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84926415967     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12106     Document Type: Article

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