Datasets for toponym recognition and disambiguation for nineteenth-century English newspapers
We present two datasets, one for the task of toponym recognition and one for the task of toponym disambiguation. The datasets are derived from the "Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.23636 ...
Coll Ardanuy, Mariona, Nanni, Federico
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Increased Significance of Global Concurrent Hazards From 1981 to 2020
Abstract The spatiotemporal overlap of multiple hazards defines what we call concurrent hazards, which usually cause more severe damage than what an isolated hazard would. Investigations of concurrent hazards at the global scale are limited. Here we first developed a novel criterion system for identifying concurrent hazards and then recognized 1,614 ...
Yilei Xu +9 more
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Lost in Translation: Word Sense Disambiguation. [PDF]
In natural languages, a word can take on different meanings in different contexts. Word sense disambiguation (WSD) refers to the task of determining the correct meaning or sense of a word in ...
Lian Tze, Lim, Tang, Enya Kong
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Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit
Short Abstract This paper explores cognitive place associations; conceptualised as a place‐based mental model that derives subconscious links between geographic locations. Utilising a large corpus of online discussion data from the social media website Reddit, we experiment on the extraction of such geographic knowledge from unstructured text.
Cillian Berragan +3 more
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How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation? [PDF]
A vast amount of geographic information exists in natural language texts, such as tweets and news. Extracting geographic information from texts is called Geoparsing, which includes two subtasks: toponym recognition and toponym disambiguation, i.e., to ...
Zhou, Zhiyong +5 more
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Tag disambiguation based on social network information
Within 20 years the Web has grown from a tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space. While returning to its roots as a read/write tool, its entering a more social and participatory phase.
Qasim, Syed Sumair
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Joint Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation [PDF]
In morphologically rich languages, should morphological and syntactic disambiguation be treated sequentially or as a single problem? We describe several efficient, probabilistically-interpretable ways to apply joint inference to morphological and ...
Smith, N. A., Cohen, S. B.
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Durham - a word sense disambiguation system [PDF]
Ever since the 1950's when Machine Translation first began to be developed, word sense disambiguation (WSD) has been considered a problem to developers. In more recent times, all NLP tasks which are sensitive to lexical semantics potentially benefit from
Hawkins, Paul Martin
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Data-driven semantic analysis for multilingual WSD and lexical selection in translation [PDF]
A common way of describing the senses of ambiguous words in multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is by reference to their translation equivalents in another language.
Apidianaki, Marianna
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Sometimes less is more : Romanian word sense disambiguation revisited [PDF]
Recent approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) generally fall into two classes: (1) information-intensive approaches and (2) information-poor approaches.
Kübler, Sandra, Dinu, Georgiana
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