%0 Conference Paper %1 overell2007geographic %A Overell, Simon E. %A Rüger, Stefan %B Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval %C New York, NY, USA %D 2007 %I ACM %K cooccurrence geographic sys:hide:nameling01 wikipedia %P 71--76 %R 10.1145/1316948.1316968 %T Geographic co-occurrence as a tool for gir. %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316948.1316968 %X In this paper we describe the development of a geographic co-occurrence model and how it can be applied to geographic information retrieval. The model consists of mining co-occurrences of placenames from Wikipedia, and then mapping these placenames to locations in the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names. We begin by quantifying the accuracy of our model and compute theoretical bounds for the accuracy achievable when applied to placename disambiguation in free text. We conclude with a discussion of the improvement such a model could provide for placename disambiguation and geographic relevance ranking over traditional methods. %@ 978-1-59593-828-2

@inproceedings{overell2007geographic, abstract = {In this paper we describe the development of a geographic co-occurrence model and how it can be applied to geographic information retrieval. The model consists of mining co-occurrences of placenames from Wikipedia, and then mapping these placenames to locations in the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names. We begin by quantifying the accuracy of our model and compute theoretical bounds for the accuracy achievable when applied to placename disambiguation in free text. We conclude with a discussion of the improvement such a model could provide for placename disambiguation and geographic relevance ranking over traditional methods.}, acmid = {1316968}, added-at = {2012-07-10T14:23:41.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Overell, Simon E. and R\"{u}ger, Stefan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2080718c5da6a6fe14f8d463c665d153c/folke}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval}, description = {Geographic co-occurrence as a tool for gir.}, doi = {10.1145/1316948.1316968}, interhash = {5068daa0287741e9faf099a22dbb8f9b}, intrahash = {080718c5da6a6fe14f8d463c665d153c}, isbn = {978-1-59593-828-2}, keywords = {cooccurrence geographic sys:hide:nameling01 wikipedia}, location = {Lisbon, Portugal}, numpages = {6}, pages = {71--76}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {GIR '07}, timestamp = {2012-07-10T14:23:41.000+0200}, title = {Geographic co-occurrence as a tool for gir.}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316948.1316968}, year = 2007 }