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Place in Perspective: Extracting Online Information about Points of Interest

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During the last few years, the amount of online descriptive information about places has reached reasonable dimensions for many cities in the world. Being such information mostly in Natural Language text, Information Extraction techniques are needed for obtaining the meaning of places that underlies these massive amounts of commonsense and user made sources. In this article, we show how we automatically label places using Information Extraction techniques applied to online resources such as Wikipedia, Yellow Pages and Yahoo!.

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  1. CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

    Ana O. Alves, Francisco C. Pereira, Filipe Rodrigues & João Oliveirinha

  2. ISEC, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal

    Ana O. Alves

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  1. Philips Research Europe, User High Tech Campus 34 - WB - 4.053, 5656, Eindhoven, AE, The Netherlands

    Boris de Ruyter

  2. Fraunhofer, Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD, , Fraunhoferstrasse 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

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  3. TU Delft, Landbergstraat 15, 2628, Delft, CE, The Netherlands

    David V. Keyson

  4. Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  5. Smart Future Initiative, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 34, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany

    Norbert Streitz

  6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælandsvei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Monica Divitini

  7. Domaine de Voluceau, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, B.P. 105, 78153, Le Chesnay, France

    Nikolaos Georgantas

  8. E.T.S.I. Informatica, Bulevar Louis Pasteur, University of Malaga, 35, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Malaga, Spain

    Antonio Mana Gomez

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Alves, A.O., Pereira, F.C., Rodrigues, F., Oliveirinha, J. (2010). Place in Perspective: Extracting Online Information about Points of Interest. In: de Ruyter, B., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16917-5_7

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