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An Automated Approach for Geocoding Tabular Itineraries
2017
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval - GIR'17
Historical itineraries, often accessible as lists or tables describing places visited in sequence, are abundant resources and also important objects of study for humanities scholars. This article advances a novel method for automatically geocoding tabular itineraries, combining approximate string matching with a cost optimization algorithm based on dynamic programming. Experiments with a dataset of historical itineraries, with ground-truth geocoding annotations provided by domain experts and
doi:10.1145/3155902.3155908
dblp:conf/gir/SantosMM17
fatcat:jmmrx5n35bfb3mag4zohjvf7ca