A system for the automatic comparison of machine and human geocoded documents

Authors:
Ian Turton
Affiliations:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper describes an initial experiment in testing a geocoding system by comparing geocoded documents to locations assigned by human indexers as part of the MeSH indexing process of the PUBMED abstracting system. Preliminary results indicate that this is a useful check on the geocoding system and provides useful feed-back to developers of geocoding systems.