A confidence-based framework for disambiguating geographic terms
Published 1 January 2003Open access
Erik Rauch, Michael A. Bukatin, Kenneth R. Baker
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This work describes a purely confidence-based geographic term disambiguation system that crucially relies on the notion of "positive" and "negative" context and methods for combining confidence- based disambIGuation with measures of relevance to a user's query.
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We describe a purely confidence-based geographic term disambiguation system that crucially relies on the notion of "positive" and "negative" context and methods for combining confidence-based disambiguation with measures of relevance to a user's query.
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Social SciencesComputer Science
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