Handling uncertainty in information extraction [PDF]
, 2011 This position paper proposes an interactive approach for developing information extractors based on the ontology definition process with knowledge about possible (in)correctness of annotations.
Habib, Mena B., Keulen, Maurice van
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Using Contexts and Constraints for Improved Geotagging of Human Trafficking Webpages
, 2017 Extracting geographical tags from webpages is a well-motivated application in many domains. In illicit domains with unusual language models, like human trafficking, extracting geotags with both high precision and recall is a challenging problem.
Kapoor, Rahul +2 more
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A study of the tourism web coverage in Switzerland [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses experiments that were performed to understand the geographic and linguistic coverage of web resources focusing on tourism-related themes in Switzerland.
Venkateswaran, R
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Extracting and Analyzing Semantic Relatedness between Cities Using News Articles
, 2017 News articles capture a variety of topics about our society. They reflect not only the socioeconomic activities that happened in our physical world, but also some of the cultures, human interests, and public concerns that exist only in the perceptions of
Hu, Yingjie, Shaw, Shih-Lung, Ye, Xinyue
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Toponym disambiguation in historical documents using network analysis of qualitative relationships
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, 2019 In this paper we use network analysis to identify qualitative "neighbors" for toponyms in an eighteenth-century French encyclopedia, but could apply to any entry-based text with annotated toponyms. This method draws on relations in a corpus of articles, which improves disambiguation at a later stage with an external resource.
Moncla, Ludovic +4 more
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Word sense discrimination in information retrieval: a spectral clustering-based approach [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceWord sense ambiguity has been identified as a cause of poor precision in information retrieval (IR) systems. Word sense disambiguation and discrimination methods have been defined to help systems choose which documents should be ...
Chifu, Adrian-Gabriel +3 more
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TALP-UPC at MediaEval 2014 Placing Task: Combining geographical knowledge bases and language models for large-scale textual georeferencing [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes our Georeferencing approaches, experiments, and results at the MediaEval 2014 Placing Task evaluation. The task consists of predicting the most probable geographical coordinates of Flickr images and videos using its visual, audio and
Ferrés Domènech, Daniel +1 more
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A geo-temporal information extraction service for processing descriptive metadata in digital libraries [PDF]
, 2009 In the context of digital map libraries, resources are usually described according to metadata records that define the relevant subject, location, time-span, format and keywords.
Borbinha, José +3 more
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Application of Text Summarization techniques to the Geographical Information Retrieval task [PDF]
, 2013 Automatic Text Summarization has been shown to be useful for Natural Language Processing tasks such as Question Answering or Text Classification and other related fields of computer science such as Information Retrieval.
Lloret, Elena +3 more
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Assessing the Veracity of Methods for Extracting Place Semantics from Flickr Tags [PDF]
, 2013 The volume and potential value of user generated content (UGC) is ever growing. Multiply sourced, its value is greatly increased by the inclusion of metadata that adequately and accurately describes that content – particularly if such data are to be ...
Chaudhry, Omair, Mackaness, William
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