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Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model

Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2022
Sport and exercise contribute to health and well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, "informal sport" that occur at arbitrary locations across the city have been ...
Pengyuan Liu, Sonja Koivisto, Tuomo Hiippala, Charlotte Van der Lijn, Tuomas Vaisanen, Marisofia Nurmi, T. Toivonen, Kirsi Vehkakoski, Janne Pyykonen, Ilkka Virmasalo, Mikko Simula, Elina Hasanen, Anna-Katriina Salmikangas, P. Muukkonen   +13 more
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A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching [PDF]

SIGSPATIAL/GIS, 2020
Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required to provide advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms.
Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kasra Hosseini, Katherine McDonough, A. Krause, Daniel Alexander van Strien, F. Nanni   +5 more
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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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Toponym resolution leveraging lightweight and open-source large language models and geo-knowledge

International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Toponym resolution is crucial for extracting geographic information from natural language texts, such as social media posts and news articles. Despite the advancements in current methods, including state-of-the-art deep learning solutions like GENRE and ...
Xuke Hu, Jens Kersten, Friederike Klan, Sheikh Mastura Farzana   +3 more
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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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Utilizing phonetic similarity for cross-source and cross-language toponym matching: a benchmark and prototype

Language Resources and Evaluation
The writings of one ancient civilization often overlap in time and space with others. Many of these sources comprise unstructured text in ancient languages, causing scholars studying these civilizations to be siloed, often relying on sources in specific ...
Tomer Sagi, Moran Zaga, Sinai Rusinek, Marcell Richard Fekete, Johannes Bjerva, Katja Hose   +5 more
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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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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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A deep neural network model for Chinese toponym matching with geographic pre-training model

International Journal of Digital Earth
Multiple tasks within the field of geographical information retrieval and geographical information sciences necessitate toponym matching, which involves the challenge of aligning toponyms that share a common referent.
Qinjun Qiu, Shiyu Zheng, Miao Tian, Jiali Li, K. Ma, Liufeng Tao, Zhong Xie   +6 more
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source