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Precedent toponym as a political symbol

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018
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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Disambiguating toponyms in news [PDF]

Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - HLT '05, 2005
This research is aimed at the problem of disambiguating toponyms (place names) in terms of a classification derived by merging information from two publicly available gazetteers. To establish the difficulty of the problem, we measured the degree of ambiguity, with respect to a gazetteer, for toponyms in news.
Eric Garbin, Inderjeet Mani
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Approaches to disambiguating toponyms [PDF]

SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011
Many approaches have been proposed in recent years in the context of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), mostly in order to deal with geographically constrained information in un-structured texts. Most of these approaches share a common scheme: in order to disambiguate a toponym t with n ...
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On the Etymology of the Place Name Brăíla [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2016
The paper addresses the etymology of the toponym Brăíla, the name of a Lower Danube town in Romania. The author provides historical and geographic data showing the antiquity of the toponym and, at the same time, its exceptional rarity resulting from its ...
Nikolay L. Sukhachev
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The Toponym Co-Occurrence Index: A New Method to Measure the Co-Occurrence Characteristics of Toponyms

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Toponym groups are fundamental units of quantitative spatial analysis of toponyms. Using suitable technical methods to investigate the spatial distribution and co-occurrence characteristics of these groups has significant implications for identifying ...
Gaimei Wang, Fei He, Li Wang
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THE IMPORTANT OF TOPONYM IN THE MIDDLE OF MAPS AND IMAGERY FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
Maps without toponym is blind maps, imagery without names in top of it is hard for us to understand for which location the imagery stand for. Place names should be verified and validated to maintain its unique, the consistency and accuracy also to ...
A. P. Perdana, E. Hendrayana, W. E. Santoso   +2 more
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Representation of the Samarkand text in the linguocognitive aspect

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. The relevance of the study of the Samarkand text is due to the development of many issues related to the development of text theory and linguocognitive tradition in linguistics: the Samarkand text allows, on one toponym Samarkand, to ...
Y. V. Lipatova
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Mapping Natural Disasters Using Social Media Posts with an Encoder-Decoder Model [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Real-time mapping of social media posts from users in the affected areas during a natural disaster can generate actionable intelligence for disaster response teams.
N. Ekhtari, A. Niccolai, K. Slocum, C. Glennie   +3 more
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CHTopo: A Multi-Source Large-Scale Chinese Toponym Annotation Corpus

Information
Toponyms 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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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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