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Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives

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Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. / Steiner, Erik; Frank, Zephyr; Gregory, Ian et al.
PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany. 2023. p. 15-22.

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Steiner, E, Frank, Z, Gregory, I, Bodenhamer, D & Ezeani, I 2023, Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. in PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany. pp. 15-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8286257

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Steiner, E., Frank, Z., Gregory, I., Bodenhamer, D., & Ezeani, I. (2023). Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. In PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany (pp. 15-22) https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8286257

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Steiner E, Frank Z, Gregory I, Bodenhamer D, Ezeani I. Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. In PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany. 2023. p. 15-22 doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.8286257

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Steiner, Erik ; Frank, Zephyr ; Gregory, Ian et al. / Spatio-Textual Regions : Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany. 2023. pp. 15-22

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