Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, disambiguation and visualisation

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-58

  Pouliquen, Bruno ^a   Kimler, Marco ^a   Steinberger, Ralf ^a   Ignat, Camelia ^a   Oellinger, Tamara ^a   Blackler, Ken ^a   Fluart, Flavio ^a   Zaghouani, Wajdi ^a   Widiger, Anna ^a   Forslund, Ann Charlotte ^a   Best, Clive ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE TEXTS; GEO CODING; GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MOST LIKELY; MULTILINGUAL TEXTS; SYSTEM USE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84942529322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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