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Automated Processing of Postal Addresses

Authors:
Konstantin Clemens

Keywords: postal automated processing; postal addresses; address patterns; gazetteer; spatial indices

Abstract:
Postal addresses are involved whenever post mail is to be delivered to an addressee, or to describe the location of a person or organization. The world-wide adoption of postal addresses and the lack of a centralized control entity led to very heterogeneous postal address formats. Even within a single country various postal address formats may be used. In this paper the main tools for processing postal addresses in an automated fashion are compared: Multidimensional indices, address patterns and gazetteers. Special focus is put upon supporting as many heterogeneous postal address formats as feasible with the various tools.

Pages: 155 to 160

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-393X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-251-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013