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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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Toponym-based Algorithm for Grouped Geotagging of Social media

, 2017
<p>TAGGS is a tool to geotag tweets based on the tweet content. First, tweets are collected over a 24-hour period. Each individual tweet within this timeframe is analyzed on an individual basis by matching the text of the tweet to our gazetteer ...
Jens de Bruijn, Jens de Bruijn (6911171)
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The toponym "Batumi" – Etymology

, 2023
Interest in Georgian cities arose in the second half of the 19th century. Active scientific research began in the middle of the 20th century. Various monographs and works were dedicated to Georgian cities, including Batumi.
Akhvlediani, Nargiz
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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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Toponym Resolution in Text [PDF]

, 2007
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative SystemsBackground. In the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a shared discipline between informatics and geography, the term geo-parsing is used to describe the process of identifying names in ...
Leidner, Jochen Lothar
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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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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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