Title :
A graph-ranking algorithm for geo-referencing documents
Author :
Martins, Bruno ; Silva, Mário J.
Author_Institution :
Departamento de Informatica, Univ. de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper presents an application of PageRank for assigning documents with a corresponding geographical scope. We describe the technique in detail, together with its theoretical formulation. Experimental results are promising, comparing favorably with previous proposals.
Keywords :
document handling; geographic information systems; PageRank; geographical scope; georeferencing documents; graph-ranking algorithm; Data mining; Frequency; Merging; Ontologies; Statistics; Testing; Text recognition; Training data; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Data Mining, Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2278-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICDM.2005.6
