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Geotemporal querying of multilingual documents

Published 25 July 2004
Fredric C. Gey, Aitao Chen, Ray R. Larson, Kim Carl
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TL;DR

This demonstration utilizes a geographic information system interface to display multilingual news documents in time and space by extracting place names from text and matching them to a multilingual multi-script gazetteer which identifies the latitude and longitude of the location.

Abstract

This demonstration utilizes a geographic information system interface to display multilingual news documents in time and space by extracting place names from text and matching them to a multilingual multi-script gazetteer which identifies the latitude and longitude of the location.

Keywords

Social SciencesComputer Science