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Submitted on 18th of July 2005
Author Naaman, Mor; Song, Yee Jiun; Paepcke, Andreas; Garcia-Molina, Hector
Title Assigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates
Date of publication 2005
Published in Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems Journal
Citation Naaman, Mor; Song, Yee Jiun; Paepcke, Andreas; Garcia-Molina, Hector. Assigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates, Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems Journal
Number of pages 23
Language English
Project Digital Libraries
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Digital Libraries
Abstract NameSet is a system that translates a set of geographic coordinates into a textual name based on the geographic regions where the coordinates occur. One possible application of NameSet is to concisely present the geographical scope of a set of geo-referenced observations to a human user. Another application is to generate text to depict a set of coordinates that appear on a web site -- text that could later be used for information retrieval applications. NameSet's computation is based on a simple algorithm, using off-the-shelf and web-based data sources. The system was proven effective in an application that automatically organizes and names sets of geo-referenced digital photographs.
Keywords geo-referenced data, named locations, information retrieval, gazetteers, photographs
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