Extracting and analyzing semantic relatedness between cities using news articles

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2427-2451

  Hu, Yingjie ^a   Ye, Xinyue ^b   Shaw, Shih Lung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

city network; geographic knowledge discovery; geospatial semantics; Place relatedness; semantic analysis; spatial data mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; KNOWLEDGE; MACHINE LEARNING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; URBAN SOCIETY; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028556133     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1367797     Document Type: Article

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