Improving wikipedia-based place name disambiguation in short texts using structured data from DBpedia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hu, Yingjie ^a   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Prasad, Sathya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ESRI   (United States)

Author keywords

DBpedia; Linked data; Place name disambiguation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINKED DATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DBPEDIA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION; PLACE NAME DISAMBIGUATION; PRECISION AND RECALL; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84942424352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675354.2675356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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