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DEXAW
2008
IEEE
121views Database» more  DEXAW 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Mining Topological Relations from the Web
Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An ontology-driven system for detecting global health events
Text mining for global health surveillance is an emerging technology that is gaining increased attention from public health organisations and governments. The lack of multilingual...
Nigel Collier, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, John McCrae,...
COSIT
2005
Springer
125views GIS» more  COSIT 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Landmark Extraction: A Web Mining Approach
Landmarks play crucial roles in human geographic knowledge. There has been much work focusing on the extraction of landmarks from geographic information systems (GIS) or 3D city mo...
Taro Tezuka, Katsumi Tanaka
LREC
2010
173views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
GIS Application Improvement with Multilingual Lexical and Terminological Resources
This paper introduces the results of integration of lexical and terminological resources, most of them developed within the Human Language Technology (HLT) Group at the University...
Ranka Stankovic, Ivan Obradovic, Olivera Kitanovic
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer