The Ulica Nikite Tolstoja hodonym on the city map of Vršac (Serbia)
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023 This paper is devoted to the renaming of Ljubljanska street in the city of Vršac (Serbia) to commemorate Nikita Tolstoy on May 22, 2005. The paper’s author, who was then working as a Humanities Program assistant at the Russian Center of Science and ...
Marina Obizhaeva
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Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito [PDF]
, 2015 Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of places referred to in early maps and
Barker, Elton +3 more
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Maredolce-La Favara Park in Palermo: the Conservation Project of an Arab-Norman Landscape Area
ArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro: Architecture History Restoration, 2020 In the south of Palermo, among the residual agricultural areas of the rich cultivated plain called Conca d'Oro, there is the Arab-Norman complex of Maredolce-La Favara with its park, characterized by a large lake once fed by the "Fawara" spring, from ...
Clelia La Mantia
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Bayesian Estimation of Intensity Surfaces on the Sphere via Needlet Shrinkage and Selection [PDF]
, 2011 This paper describes an approach for Bayesian modeling in spherical datasets. Our method is based upon a recent construction called the needlet, which is a particular form of spherical wavelet with many favorable statistical and computational properties.
Scott, James G.
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Improving Toponym Recognition Accuracy of Historical Topographic Maps
Automatic Vectorisation of Historical Maps: International workshop organized by the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital. Budapest – 13 March, 2020, 2020 were used to filter out additional false positives. Finally, the approach was validated on a selection of 1:25000 topographic maps of Belgium from 1975-1992.
Kenzo Milleville, S. Verstockt, N. Weghe
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On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks by fine-tuning, few-shot, or even zero-shot learning.
Gengchen Mai +13 more
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Robot Navigation in Unseen Spaces using an Abstract Map
, 2020 Human navigation in built environments depends on symbolic spatial information which has unrealised potential to enhance robot navigation capabilities.
Corke, Peter +3 more
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Automatic tagging and geotagging in video collections and communities [PDF]
, 2011 Automatically generated tags and geotags hold great promise to improve access to video collections and online communi- ties. We overview three tasks offered in the MediaEval 2010 benchmarking initiative, for each, describing its use scenario ...
Jones, Gareth J.F. +3 more
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Annotation of Toponyms in TEI Digital Literary Editions and Linking to the Web of Data [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceThis paper aims to discuss the challenges and benefits of the annotation of place names in literary texts and literary criticism.
Brando, Carmen +4 more
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Toponym extraction and disambiguation enhancement using loops of feedback [PDF]
, 2013 Toponym extraction and disambiguation 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
Habib, Mena B., Keulen, Maurice van
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