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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rui Santos, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Bruno Martins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Earth
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2017.1371253