Microsoft TerraServer: a spatial data warehouse
SIGMOD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Generating and reintegrating geospatial data
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Geospatial mapping and navigation of the web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Information Retrieval
A brief survey of web data extraction tools
ACM SIGMOD Record
Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions in the Geographic Domain
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Qualitative Spatial Representation for Information Retrieval by Gazetteers
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Extracting Spatial Knowledge from the Web
SAINT '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Named Entity recognition without gazetteers
EACL '99 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving Geocoding Practices: Evaluation of Geocoding Tools
Journal of Medical Systems
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Toponym resolution in text (abstract only): "which sheffield is it?"
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Text mining in a digital library
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Automatically and accurately conflating orthoimagery and street maps
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international workshop on Geographic information systems
Exploiting online sources to accurately geocode addresses
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international workshop on Geographic information systems
Web resource geographic location classification and detection
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
On assigning place names to geography related web pages
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Location normalization for information extraction
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Automatically utilizing secondary sources to align information across sources
AI Magazine - Special issue on semantic integration
Extracting metadata for spatially-aware information retrieval on the internet
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Challenges and resources for evaluating geographical IR
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Semi-supervised learning of geographical gazetteers from the internet
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
On building a high performance gazetteer database
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
A Method for Estimating the Precision of Placename Matching
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Learning semantic descriptions of web information sources
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Automatic acquisition of fuzzy footprints
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Assigning geographical scopes to web pages
ECIR'05 Proceedings of the 27th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Research
Semantic information in geo-ontologies: extraction, comparison, and reconciliation
Journal on Data Semantics III
Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags
GeoS '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics
Multi-source toponym data integration and mediation for a meta-gazetteer service
GIScience'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Geographic information science
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Knowledge annotation framework oriented geospatial semantic web service management
ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part II
Automatic gazetteer enrichment with user-geocoded data
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
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The utility of every imaginable application which incorporates a gazetteer hinges on the simple fact that the resulting system will only be as useful, complete, or accurate as the underlying gazetteer itself. A major issue confronting gazetteers utilized in systems today is that they are not complete and measures of their accuracy are largely unknown. In this paper we describe a methodology which addresses this problem by automatically generating highly complete and detailed regional gazetteers from Internet sources. We utilize information extraction and integration techniques to automatically obtain geographic features and associated footprints and feature types from freely and widely available online data which could be applied to create a gazetteer for nearly any area. We discuss the distinguishing characteristics of the generated gazetteer and extend previous work to define measures which can be used to assess the completeness and accuracy of gazetteers. Using these measures, the generated gazetteer is evaluated against the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer and the Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database. Our results indicate that a gazetteer created by our methods will be at least as complete as any gazetteer currently available for certain feature classes, while falling short in others. We conclude by offering suggestions to address these shortcomings.