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Toponyms

2023
AbstractThis chapter provides an overview of place naming conventions (toponyms) in the Indigenous languages of Australia. The chapter covers semantics, etymology, the structure of toponyms, including the syntax and morphology of naming strategies, as well as the semantic structure of naming systems, and transparency and opacity in naming strategies ...
Katherine Rosenberg   +2 more
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The Lexical Shift in Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Toponyms: Accounting for the Preference of Complex over Simple Toponym Outputs

Sign Language Studies, 2022
:This work categorizes Japanese Sign Language (JSL) toponyms, or place names, and examines factors that potentially affect their structure. Exonyms, influenced by the source Japanese name, and endonyms, independent JSL names, contrast structurally in ...
Johnny George
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NeuroTPR: A neuro‐net toponym recognition model for extracting locations from social media messages

Trans. GIS, 2020
Social media messages, such as tweets, are frequently used by people during natural disasters to share real‐time information and to report incidents. Within these messages, geographic locations are often described. Accurate recognition and geolocation of
Jimin Wang, Yingjie Hu, K. Joseph
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TOPONYMIC CLASSIFICATIONS

2023
Toponymy can be studied geographically as well as linguistically according to it features of geographical and linguistical. The article illustrates on the principles of toponyms as well as it includes some methods of descriptive and semantic analysis of toponyms. Moreover, it is given various types of toponyms and features of them.
Ismatova, Nodirakhon   +2 more
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Improving Toponym Resolution by Predicting Attributes to Constrain Geographical Ontology Entries

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured geospatial data.We propose a new prompt-based paradigm for geocoding, where the machine learning algorithm encodes only the location mention and its context.We design a ...
Zeyu Zhang   +2 more
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Delineating urban hinterland boundaries in the Pearl River Delta: An approach integrating toponym co-occurrence with field strength model

, 2020
Urban development requires the support of its surrounding areas. Accurate identification of urban hinterlands can help to scientifically evaluate strength and potential of urban development.
Jiansheng Wu   +4 more
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Toponym Dropping

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 2023
The article questions a widespread scholarly view regarding the authorship of Josh 10:28–39. It is usually assumed that this description of a route of conquest and massacre, which Joshua leads through six cities in the Shephelah and Mount Hebron, was composed by Judean authors, and it is most commonly dated to the seventh century bce.
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Toponym usage in social media in emergencies

, 2020
For emergency responders, the utility of social media hinges on available and accurate geographic information. Responders must locate events reported on social media to assess a situation, coordinate resources, and provide assistance.
R. Grace
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Toponymous diseases of Australia

Medical Journal of Australia, 2010
Names are more than just labels used to identify diseases. They can be windows into the discovery, characteristics and attributes of the disease. Toponymous diseases are diseases that are named after places. Hendra, Ross River, Bairnsdale, Murray Valley and Barmah Forest are all examples of Australian places that have had diseases named after them ...
Ranil D, Appuhamy   +2 more
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Toponymics and Area Study (Of the Toponymics Section Work)

Russian language at school, 2018
We consider the problems of inter-relations between toponymics and area study in this article. We use deantroponimic terms and names of the localities of the Belozersky region as our data and demonstrate ways of using this toponymic data to study the region’s local history and particularities of language used there.
N. A. Volkova, N. P. Tikhomirova
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