GIPSY: Automated Geographic Indexing of Text Documents.

Woodruff, Allison Gyle; Plaunt, Christian

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Publication Date: 1994

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GIPSY: Automated Geographic Indexing of Text Documents.

Woodruff, Allison Gyle; Plaunt, Christian

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v45 n9 p645-55 Oct 1994

Presents an algorithm that automatically extracts words and phrases containing geographic place names or characteristics from a text document and uses them as input to database functions that use spatial reasoning to approximate statistically the geoposition referenced in the text. Preliminary results and future work are discussed. (28 references) (KRN)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design, Evaluation, Experiments, Full Text Databases, Geographic Location, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Land Use, Polygons, Problems, Research Needs, Thesauri

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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