GeoCorpora: building a corpus to test and train microblog geoparsers

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-29

  Wallgrün, Jan Oliver ^a   Karimzadeh, Morteza ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^a   Pezanowski, Scott ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corpus building; geo annotation; Geoparsing; microblogs; named entity recognition; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; GIS; INTERNET; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 85029432852     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1368523     Document Type: Article

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