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CHTopo: A Multi-Source Large-Scale Chinese Toponym Annotation Corpus
InformationToponyms are fundamental geographical resources characterized by their spatial attributes, distinct from general nouns. While natural language provides rich toponymic data beyond traditional surveying methods, its qualitative ambiguity and inherent ...
Peng Ye, Yujin Jiang, Yadi Wang
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How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023 Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym recognition) and then identifying their geospatial representations (toponym ...
Xuke Hu +5 more
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Using Twitter Data to Monitor Natural Disaster Social Dynamics: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach with Word Embeddings and Kernel Density Estimation [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have received a great deal of attention for their potential use in the spatial and temporal modeling of events owing to the information that can be extracted from these platforms. Within this context, one of
Aldo Hernandez-Suarez +6 more
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Toponym Recognition in Scanned Color Topographic Maps
Proc Int Conf Doc Anal Recognit, 2007 Topographic paper maps are a common support for geographical information. In the field of document analysis of this kind of support, this paper proposes an automatic approach to extract and recognize toponyms. We present a technique based on image segmentation and connected component processing.
Pouderoux, Joachim +3 more
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Geotagging a Diachronic Corpus of Alpine Texts: Comparing Distinct Approaches to Toponym Recognition
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Historical Archives - with a Special Focus on Central-, (South-)Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 2019 Geotagging historic and cultural texts provides valuable access to heritage data, enabling location-based searching and new geographically related discoveries. In this paper, we describe two distinct approaches to geotagging a variety of fine-grained toponyms in a diachronic corpus of alpine texts.
Kew, Tannon +5 more
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City Place Names and their Modification in Child Speech [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The anthropocentric focus of contemporary linguistic research highlights the specificity of individual linguistic worldview which includes a personal sense of toponymy.
Tatiana A. Kruglyakova
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SUPPLEMENTING SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DATA FOR REMOTE RECONNAISSANCE: A CASE STUDY OF THE 2020 TAAL VOLCANO ERUPTION [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021 Social sensing and satellite imagery are named as the top emerging data sources for disaster management. There is a wealth of data, both in quantity and quality that can be extracted from social media platforms such as Twitter, given that the content ...
A. L. F. Yute +5 more
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Multifaceted toponym recognition for streaming news [PDF]
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval, 2011 News sources on the Web generate constant streams of information, describing many aspects of the events that shape our world. In particular, geography plays a key role in the news, and enabling geographic retrieval of news articles involves recognizing the textual references to geographic locations (called toponyms) present in the articles, which can ...
Michael D. Lieberman, Hanan Samet
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 Toponym recognition, or the challenge of detecting place names that have a similar referent, is involved in a number of activities connected to geographical information retrieval and geographical information sciences. This research focuses on recognizing
Liufeng Tao +6 more
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New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg.
Valery L. Vasilyev
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