Building a corpus of spatial relational expressions extracted from web documents

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wallgrün, Jan Oliver ^a   Klippel, Alexander ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corpus building; Information retrieval; Proximity; Spatial language; Spatial relations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MODELING LANGUAGES; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROXIMITY; SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84942411097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675354.2675702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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