TopoBERT: a plug and play toponym recognition module harnessing fine-tuned BERT
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 Extracting precise geographical information from the textual content, referred to as toponym recognition, is fundamental in geographical information retrieval and crucial in a plethora of spatial analyses, e.g.
Bing Zhou +4 more
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Toponym-assisted map georeferencing: Evaluating the use of toponyms for the digitization of map collections. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 A great deal of information is contained within archival maps—ranging from historic political boundaries, to mineral resources, to the locations of cultural landmarks.
Bahgat K, Runfola D.
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A study of psycholinguistic meanings of the toponym "Vladikavkaz" (through linguistic associative experiments) [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 The study reveals ways to identify and describe the psycholinguistic meanings of lexical units (on the example of the toponym "Vladikavkaz"). Psycholinguistic meaning is one of the types of meanings along with the traditional type of meaning such as ...
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Indian J Dermatol, 2022 The term toponym means any name that is derived from a place name. Numerous dermatological conditions have their names derived from geographic places. Although most conditions may have some association to the place they have been derived from, some of them are fortuitous.
Ramesh H, Somashekar S.
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A Novel Deep Learning Approach Using Contextual Embeddings for Toponym Resolution
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 This article describes a novel approach for toponym resolution with deep neural networks. The proposed approach does not involve matching references in the text against entries in a gazetteer, instead directly predicting geo-spatial coordinates. Multiple
Ana Bárbara Cardoso +2 more
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CHTopo: A Multi-Source Large-Scale Chinese Toponym Annotation Corpus
InformationToponyms are fundamental geographical resources characterized by their spatial attributes, distinct from general nouns. While natural language provides rich toponymic data beyond traditional surveying methods, its qualitative ambiguity and inherent ...
Peng Ye, Yujin Jiang, Yadi Wang
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Linguistic Prestige and Toponym Use at the Crossroads of Languages and Cultures
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper focuses on the general problems of ethnic and linguistic contacts, and their impact on toponymic systems. To illustrate these, the author uses empirical evidence from medieval Hungarian charters originating from the Carpathian Basin, and ...
Valéria Tóth
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CSMNER: A Toponym Entity Recognition Model for Chinese Social Media
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationIn the era of information explosion, Chinese social media has become a repository for massive geographic information; however, its unique unstructured nature and diverse expressions are challenging to toponym entity recognition.
Yuyang Qi +6 more
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Crisis social media data labeled for storm-related information and toponym usage. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2020 Social media provides citizens and officials with important sources of information during times of crisis. This data article makes available labeled, storm-related social media data collected over a six-hour period during a severe storm and F1 tornado ...
Grace R.
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Spatial-temporal characteristics and causes of changes to the county-level administrative toponyms cultural landscape in the eastern plains of China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 As part of the cultural landscape, administrative toponyms do not only reflect natural and sociocultural phenomena, but also help with related management and naming work.
Yingying Wang +6 more
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