GIR
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2008
ACM
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
FLAIRS
2003
14 years 2 months ago
2003
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
LREC
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We describe and evaluate a prototype system for recognising person and place names in digitised records of British parliamentary proceedings from the late 17th and early 19th cent...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
1998
ACM
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2009
Springer
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
ERCIMDL
2003
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2003
Springer
A digital library typically includes a set of keywords (or subject terms) for each document in its collection(s). For some applications, including natural resource management, geog...