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GIPSY: Automated geographic indexing of text documents

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  • Allison Gyle Woodruff
  • Christian Plaunt

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In this article we present an algorithm which automatically extracts geopositional coordinate index terms from text to support georeferenced document indexing and retrieval. Under this algorithm, words and phrases containing geographic place names or characteristics are extracted from a text document and used as input to database functions which use spatial reasoning to approximate statistically the geoposition being referenced in the text. We conclude with a discussion of preliminary results and future work. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Allison Gyle Woodruff & Christian Plaunt, 1994. "GIPSY: Automated geographic indexing of text documents," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 45(9), pages 645-655, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:45:y:1994:i:9:p:645-655
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199410)45:93.0.CO;2-8
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    1. Mariam Daoud & Jimmy Xiangji Huang, 2013. "Modeling geographic, temporal, and proximity contexts for improving geotemporal search," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(1), pages 190-212, January.

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