Learning to combine multiple string similarity metrics for effective toponym matching
Several tasks related to geographical information retrieval and to the geographical information sciences involve toponym matching, that is, the problem of matching place names that share a common referent. In this article, we present the results of a wide-ranging evaluation on the performance of dif...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-09-01
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Series: | International Journal of Digital Earth |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2017.1371253 |