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A Hybrid Approach for Robust Multilingual Toponym Extraction and Disambiguation [PDF]

, 2013
Toponym extraction and disambiguation are key topics recently addressed by fields of Information Extraction and Geographical Information Retrieval. Toponym extraction and disambiguation are highly dependent processes. Not only toponym extraction effectiveness affects disambiguation, but also disambiguation results may help improving extraction accuracy.
Habib, Mena Badieh, van Keulen, Maurice
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Places in Information Science

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 70, Issue 11, Page 1173-1182, November 2019., 2019
Human spatial concepts, such as the concept of place, are not immediately translatable to the geometric foundations of spatial databases and information systems developed over the past 50 years. These systems typically rest on the concepts of objects and fields, both bound to coordinates, as two general paradigms of geographic representation. The match
Ross S. Purves, Stephan Winter, Werner Kuhn   +2 more
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Discovering the spatial coverage of the documents through the SpatialCIM Methodology. [PDF]

, 2020
The main focus of this paper is to present the SpatialCIM methodology to identify the spatial coverage of the documents in the Brazilian geographic area. This methodology uses a linguistic tool to assist in the entity recognition process.
MOURA, M. F., REZENDE, S. de O., RODRIGUEZ, E., SPERANZA, E. A., VARGAS, R. N. P.   +4 more
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The SpatialCIM methodology for spatial document coverage disambiguation and the entity recognition process aided by linguistic techniques. [PDF]

, 2020
. Nowadays it is becoming more usual for users to take into account the geographical localization of the documents in the retrieval information process.
MOURA, M. F., REZENDE, S. O., RODRIGUEZ, E., SPERANZA, E. A., VARGAS, R. N. P.   +4 more
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Event-based Access to Historical Italian War Memoirs

, 2021
The progressive digitization of historical archives provides new, often domain specific, textual resources that report on facts and events which have happened in the past; among these, memoirs are a very common type of primary source.
Nanni, Federico, Ponzetto, Simone Paolo, Rovera, Marco   +2 more
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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, Palacio Damien, Purves Ross. S.   +2 more
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Information extraction for social media [PDF]

, 2014
The rapid growth in IT in the last two decades has led to a growth in the amount of information available online. A new style for sharing information is social media. Social media is a continuously instantly updated source of information.
Habib, Mena B., Keulen, Maurice van
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A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web

, 2013
Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo-referenced information, resulting in spatial information overload.
A. Ballatore, A. Buccella, A. Burton-Jones, A. Gangemi, A. Gore, A. Gómez-Pérez, A. Polleres, A. Schwering, A. Turner, B. Smith, C. Bizer, C. Jones, C. Keßler, C. Keßler, C. Manning, C.B. Jones, D. Buscaldi, D. Coleman, D. Nadeau, D. Strasunskas, D. Sui, F. Baader, F. Fonseca, F. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, F. Harvey, F.. Gey, F.J. Lopez-Pellicer, G. Bordogna, G. Fu, G. Tré De, G. Weikum, J. Giles, J. Goodwin, J. Howe, J. Leveling, K. Janowicz, K. Janowicz, L. Vaccari, L.L. Hill, M. Egenhofer, M. Goodchild, M. Goodchild, M. Grassi, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Kitsuregawa, M. Lutz, N. Choi, N. Guarino, N. Guarino, P. Burrough, P. Magnus, P. Roget, P. Singh, P.D. Smart, R. Fouad, R. Rada, S. Auer, S. Auer, S. Freitas, S. Hahmann, S. Overell, S. Schade, S. Staab, S. Vaid, S. Winter, T. Berners-Lee, T. Mandl, T. Mandl   +70 more
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THU_NGN at SemEval-2019 Task 12: Toponym Detection and Disambiguation on Scientific Papers [PDF]

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2019
First name: Tao Last name: Qi Email: taoqi.qt@gmail.com Affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University First name: Suyu Last name: Ge Email: gesy17@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn Affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University First name: Chuhan Last name: Wu Email: wuch15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn Affiliation ...
Tao Qi, Suyu Ge, Chuhan Wu, Yubo Chen, Yongfeng Huang   +4 more
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“Çété méné endan Lalwizyann”: The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity

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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