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Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions

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2010
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Piotrowski, M., Läubli, S., & Volk, M. (2010). Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions. In R. S. Purves, P. Clough, & C. B. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. 15–16). https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722083

Abstract

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Abstract

We describe a corpus of historic mountaineering accounts and ongoing work on geocoding toponyms and route descriptions in These accounts. Mountaineering accounts contain a wealth of geographic information but its extraction for purposes of geographic Information retrieval poses specific challenges, in particular the distinction between toponyms pertinent to route descriptions and those mentioned in descriptions of panoramas. We describe some preliminary considerations for natural language cues to distinguish between these two types of

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Event Title
GIR'10: 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval

Event Location

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Zurich

Event Country

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Switzerland

Event Start Date

Event Start Date

Event Start Date
2010-02-18

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Event End Date
2010-02-19

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15

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16

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English

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2010-02-26

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978-1-60558-826-1

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278 since deposited on 2010-02-26
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523 since deposited on 2010-02-26
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Piotrowski, M., Läubli, S., & Volk, M. (2010). Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions. In R. S. Purves, P. Clough, & C. B. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. 15–16). https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722083

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