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Geocoding place names from historic route descriptions
Blank, Daniel; Henrich, Andreas (2015): Geocoding place names from historic route descriptions, in: Ross S. Purves und Christopher B. Jones (Hrsg.), GIR ’15 : Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, New York: ACM, doi: 10.1145/2837689.2837698.
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GIR '15 : Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
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9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, November 26-27, 2015 ; Paris
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Year of publication:
2015
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9
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978-1-4503-3937-7
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English
Abstract:
Many gazetteers contain only a small amount of historic place name information and spelling variants of places. Even more focused historic gazetteers are far from being complete and often specialize on certain geographic regions or particular time periods. On the other hand, there are huge amounts of historic route descriptions, so called itineraries. They represent massive knowledge sources from which historic place names and spelling variants can be deduced. The analysis and geocoding of those route descriptions---often done by hand---is an important task in the humanities. To cope with these problems, we present preliminary ideas how to automatically deduce historic place names and thus travel routes from historic route descriptions.
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Reiseweg
Geoinformatik
Ortsverzeichnis
Keywords: ;  ; 
itinerary resolution
geocoding
gazetteer enrichment
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Activation date:
June 15, 2016
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