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Toponym Extraction and Disambiguation from Text: A Survey

JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
Toponym is an essential element of geospatial information. Traditionally, toponyms are collected in a gazetteer through field surveys that require significant resources, including labor, time, and money.
Rizka Windiastuti, Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Indra Budi   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Toponym recognition in custom-made map titles [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceThe titles of customized topographic maps constitute a specific corpus which is characterized by a very significant number of place names and spelling variations. This paper is about identifying toponyms in these titles. The toponym
Dominguès, Catherine, Eshkol-Taravella, Iris   +1 more
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The exploitation of silver deposits in early medieval Europe: some documentary, economic and social problems

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
wiley   +1 more source

The Image of Women Figures in Folklore of Kudus Kulon’s Toponyms: A Linguistics Anthropology Study

Sawwa: Jurnal Studi Gender, 2019
This study aims to explore the image of women figures in folklore relating to the naming of a place (toponym) in the Kudus Kulon area. This study was carried out with a linguistic anthropology approach, which focuses on language as a set of symbolic ...
Ratna Muthia, Fatah Syukur
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Marea: a Byzantine port in northern Egypt [PDF]

, 1982
African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
wiley   +1 more source

Using Contexts and Constraints for Improved Geotagging of Human Trafficking Webpages

, 2017
Extracting geographical tags from webpages is a well-motivated application in many domains. In illicit domains with unusual language models, like human trafficking, extracting geotags with both high precision and recall is a challenging problem.
Kapoor, Rahul, Kejriwal, Mayank, Szekely, Pedro   +2 more
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Managing death in exile

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
wiley   +1 more source