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Toponym Disambiguation in Information Retrieval [PDF]
, 2015 In recent years, geography has acquired a great importance in the context of Information Retrieval (IR) and, in general, of the automated processing of information in text. Mobile devices that are able to surf the web and at the same time inform about their position are now a common reality, together with applications that can exploit this data to ...
Buscaldi, Davide
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Improving Toponym Disambiguation by Iteratively Enhancing Certainty of Extraction. [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, 2012 Named entity extraction (NEE) and disambiguation (NED) have received much attention in recent years. Typical fields addressing these topics are information retrieval, natural language processing, and semantic web. This paper addresses two problems with toponym extraction and disambiguation (as a representative example of named entities).
Habib, Mena Badieh, van Keulen, Maurice
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Should We Ask an LLM? Evaluating Toponym Disambiguation across Administrative Levels
AGILE: GIScience SeriesAbstract. Toponym disambiguation, determining which real-world location a place name refers to, is a critical step in geoparsing pipelines, yet existing evaluations mix disambiguation quality with the behavior of downstream geocoders through distance-based metrics.
Franz Welscher +3 more
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Geoparser: A transformer-based bi-encoder approach for efficient toponym disambiguation [PDF]
Information retrieval systems face significant challenges when interpreting toponyms in unstructured text due to their inherent ambiguity and context dependency. Traditional methods often struggle with the linguistic complexity involved, making it difficult to resolve these ambiguities effectively.
Gomes, Diego
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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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Toponym Disambiguation by Arborescent Relationships [PDF]
Journal of Computer Science, 2010 Problem statement: The way of referring to a place in the geographical space can be formal, based on the spatial coordinates, or informal, which we use in natural language by using toponyms (place names). A toponym can represent several geographical places. This ambiguity made problematic its conversion towards a unique formal representation.
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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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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract Misconceptions about the ethnolinguistic relationship between Haiti and Louisiana persist to the present. Central to this debate is whether Louisiana Creole (LC) is a variety of French, an independent language, or a variant of the better‐known and more widely spoken Haitian Creole (HC). In this paper, I present data from residents of Louisiana
Nathan A. Wendte
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Resolving fine granularity toponyms: Evaluation of a disambiguation approach [PDF]
, 2012 We present an approach of toponym disambiguation specialised on toponyms of fine spatial granularity. State of the art disambiguation approaches have manly focused on toponyms referring to populated places where a priori toponym knowledge is available for instance from gazetteers.
Derungs Curdin +2 more
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