A survey on the geographic scope of textual documents

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-34

  Monteiro, Bruno R ^a   Davis, Clodoveu A ^b   Fonseca, Fred ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; Geographic scope resolution problem; Geoparsing; Grounding references; Information retrieval; Reference resolution

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS;

BENCHMARKING DATA; DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE RESOLUTION PROBLEM; GEOPARSING; LOCATION BASED; REFERENCE RESOLUTION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURVEY METHOD; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 84982786494     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2016.07.017     Document Type: Review

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