Construction and first analysis of a corpus for the evaluation and training of microblog/twitter geoparsers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wallgrün, Jan Oliver ^a   Hardisty, Frank ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^a   Karimzadeh, Morteza ^a   Ju, Yiting ^a   Pezanowski, Scott ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus building; Geoparsing; Microblogs; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOPARSING; GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS; LARGE CORPORA; MICRO-BLOG; MICROBLOGS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TWITTER;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84942429201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675354.2675701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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