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IDENTITY OF PLACE, PLACES OF IDENTITIES, CHANGE OF PLACE NAMES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]

, 2007
International audienceVarious types of transformations of toponyms coexist today in South Africa at every scale: street, suburb, village, town, city, municipality, district, province and country. Place names contribute to forge the identity of particular
Guyot, Sylvain, Seethal, Cecil
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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Automated annotation of landmark images using community contributed datasets and web resources [PDF]

, 2010
A novel solution to the challenge of automatic image annotation is described. Given an image with GPS data of its location of capture, our system returns a semantically-rich annotation comprising tags which both identify the landmark in the image, and ...
Byrne, Daragh, Hughes, Mark, Jones, Gareth J.F., O'Connor, Noel E., Salway, Andrew   +4 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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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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Managing death in exile

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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Spatiotemporal Typhoon Damage Assessment: A Multi-Task Learning Method for Location Extraction and Damage Identification from Social Media Texts

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Typhoons are among the most destructive natural phenomena, posing significant threats to human society. Therefore, accurate damage assessment is crucial for effective disaster management and sustainable development.
Liwei Zou, Zhi He, Xianwei Wang, Yutian Liang   +3 more
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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, Kejriwal, Mayank, Szekely, Pedro   +2 more
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Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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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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