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A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms
The emerging trends and technologies of surveying and mapping potentially enable local experts to contribute and share their local geographical knowledge of place names (toponyms).
Aji Putra Perdana, Frank O. Ostermann
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The Hungarian National Toponym Registry The website of the Hungarian National Toponym Registry was launched in October 2015 (www.mnh.unideb.hu).
István Hoffmann, Valéria Tóth
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Spatial Ambiguities Optimization in GIR [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Huge amount of geographically referenced information is available on World Wide Web and has become an excellent source for retrieval of desired information.
Arun Yadav, Jay Yadav, Divakar Yadav
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Features of the functioning of onyms in the handwriting of G.R. Derzhavin
The features of the functioning of onyms in the poetic work of G.R. Derzhavin are revealed. Based on the material of the original title of the poem “Zhizn’ na Zvanke” (later called“Evgeniyu.
A. S. Shcherbak, Juanjuan Guo
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Robot Navigation in Unseen Spaces using an Abstract Map
Human navigation in built environments depends on symbolic spatial information which has unrealised potential to enhance robot navigation capabilities.
Corke, Peter +3 more
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Topographical reconstruction of ancient Palermo: a note on its buildings for public spectacles and their relation with the Roman-period civic planning [PDF]
Topographical studies in the last decades have greatly improved our knowledge of Roman Panormus (modern day Palermo) but many aspects of its urban planning still remain obscure. It is very hard work to clearly understand a city that has been continuously
Storchi, Paolo
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How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?
Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym recognition) and then identifying their geospatial representations (toponym ...
Xuke Hu +5 more
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Precedent toponym as a political symbol
Precedent toponyms in the political discourse often mean the symbols of the state power: the Kremlin, the White House, Wall Street, Berlin, London, etc. This article is devoted to the analysis of meanings of the precedent toponym “Red Square”.
Irina Vladimirovna Bugaeva
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Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito [PDF]
Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of places referred to in early maps and
Barker, Elton +3 more
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Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King? [PDF]
This paper given in honor of John T. Killen concerns the relationship between the written and the spoken word within the narrowly defined literate administrative record-keeping systems of Mycenaean palatial centers and focuses on questions connected with
Palaima, Thomas G.
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