Geographic ontologies, gazetteers and multilingualism

Future Internet

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-23

  Laurini, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Gazetteers; Geographic information science; Geographic knowledge; Geographic ontologies; Geographic ontology matching; Geographic reasoning; Multilingualism; Typonyms

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; ONTOLOGY;

GAZETTEERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES; GEOGRAPHIC REASONING; MULTILINGUALISM; TYPONYMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84942077809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19995903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/fi7010001     Document Type: Article

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