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Geo-spatial Information ScienceExtracting geographic information from texts contributes to both geographic information science research and various practical applications, but extracting fine-grained and complex location descriptions from Chinese text is still challenging, due to ...
Haigang Sui +5 more
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Improving Toponym Resolution with Better Candidate Generation, Transformer-based Reranking, and Two-Stage Resolution [PDF]
STARSEM, 2023 Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured data that encodes the geospatial semantics. We propose a new architecture for geocoding, GeoNorm.
Zeyu Zhang, Steven Bethard
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Proverbium, 2019 This article provides a comparison between Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, French, English, Finnish, and Tajik proverbs with toponyms.
Mikhail Bredis, Olga Lomakina
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TopoBERT: Plug and Play Toponym Recognition Module Harnessing Fine-tuned BERT [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Extracting precise geographical information from textual contents is crucial in a plethora of applications. For example, during hazardous events, a robust and unbiased toponym extraction framework can provide an avenue to tie the location concerned to ...
Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Yingjie Hu, Y. Qiang
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Twitter user geolocation method based on single-point toponym matching and local toponym filtering
网络与信息安全学报, 2023 The availability of accurate toponyms in user tweets is crucial for geolocating Twitter users.However, existing methods for locating Twitter users often suffer from limited quantity and reliability of acquired toponyms, thus impacting the accuracy of ...
Jin XUE, Fuxiang YUAN, Yimin LIU, Meng ZHANG, Yaqiong QIAO, Xiangyang LUO
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DTM GENERATION FROM TERRASAR-X USING TIN ALGORITHM IN PAPUA ISLAND, INDONESIA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 One of the outputs of mapping activity in Indonesia is Digital Terrain Model (DTM). DTM generated by stereo plotting with photogrammetry concept, where Indonesia Topography Map at medium scale using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and currently, one of ...
D. B. Susetyo +2 more
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Names, 2023 This study examines Japanese Sign Language (JSL) toponym distribution by categorizing 184 JSL endonymic toponyms via the Blair & Tent (2020) Australian National Placename Survey (ANPS) typology.
Johnny George
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How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation? [PDF]
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2022 A vast amount of geographic information exists in natural language texts, such as tweets and news. Extracting geographic information from texts is called Geoparsing, which includes two subtasks: toponym recognition and toponym disambiguation, i.e., to ...
Xuke Hu +5 more
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ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2023 In recent years, the Chinese tourism industry has developed rapidly, leading to significant changes in the relationship between people and space patterns in scenic regions.
Chengkun Zhang +11 more
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Das Toponym Macau als Politikum: Etymologie und sino-portugiesische Kolonialgeschichte
Namenkundliche Informationen, 2023 [ Abstract: The toponym Macau (a former Portuguese colony in the Chinese Pearl River delta, approx. 60 km west of Hong Kong) has become a frequent topic of etymological debate in the 20th century.
Raphael Dohardt
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