On assigning place names to geography related web pages

• Main Authors: Zong, Wenbo, Wu, Dan, Sun, Aixin, Lim, Ee Peng, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79918; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6188
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we attempt to give spatial semantics to web pages by assigning them place names. The entire assignment task is divided into three sub-problems, namely place name extraction, place name disambiguation and place name assignment. We propose our approaches to address these sub-problems. I...