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The Wikipedia location network: overcoming borders and oceans

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Johanna Geiß,

Andreas Spitz,

Jannik Strötgen,

Michael GertzAuthors Info & Claims

GIR '15: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2837689.2837694

Published: 26 November 2015 Publication History

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In social network analysis and information retrieval, research has recently been devoted to the extraction of implicit relationships between persons from unstructured textual sources. In this paper, we adapt such a person-centric approach to the extraction of locations and build the Wikipedia Location Network based on co-occurrences of place names in the English Wikipedia. We summarize the network's characteristics and demonstrate its value for future location relationship analysis tasks.

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The Wikipedia location network: overcoming borders and oceans
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/2837689

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Spitz AGeiß JGertz MHagedorn SSattler KJones CPurves R(2016)Refining imprecise spatio-temporal eventsProceedings of the 10th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval10.1145/3003464.3003469(1-10)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2016
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