The SpatialCIM methodology for spatial document coverage disambiguation and the entity recognition process aided by linguistic techniques. [PDF]
. Nowadays it is becoming more usual for users to take into account the geographical localization of the documents in the retrieval information process.
MOURA, M. F. +4 more
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A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web
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 +70 more
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A tool to analyse spatial distribution of science research activities based on toponym resolution in text [PDF]
Spatial distribution of research activities in geo-sciences is related not only to the distribution of authors but also to the distribution of research area. In the present work we developed a tool to analyze spatial distribution of science research activities based on toponym resolution in text of scientific papers.
Jianxia Ma +4 more
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Named Entity Extraction and Disambiguation: The Reinforcement Effect. [PDF]
Named entity extraction and disambiguation have received much attention in recent years. Typical fields addressing these topics are information retrieval, natural language processing, and semantic web.
Habib, Mena B., Keulen, Maurice van
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SITOGEO: A geographic database used for GIS applications [PDF]
This contribution aims to present the geographic database “SITOGEO” developed with GIS technology. This database manages data of different nature, source and resolution (land images, digital elevation model, cartographic maps and vector data) covering ...
Bisson, M., Fornaciai, A., Mazzarini, F.
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Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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IDENTITY OF PLACE, PLACES OF IDENTITIES, CHANGE OF PLACE NAMES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]
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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