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http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC32644| Title: | Geocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation |
| Authors: | POULIQUEN BRUNO; KIMLER Marco; STEINBERGER RALF; IGNAT CAMELIA; OELLINGER Tamara; BLACKLER Kenneth; FUART FLAVIO; ZAGHOUANI Wajdi; WIDIGER Anna; FORSLUND Ann-Charlotte; BEST CLIVE |
| Citation: | Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC) proceedings |
| Publisher: | ELRA/ELDA |
| Publication Year: | 2006 |
| JRC N°: | JRC32644 |
| URI: | http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC32644 |
| Type: | Articles in periodicals and books |
| Abstract: | We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependant resources, except a gazetteer. The main difficulty is to disambiguate these place names by distinguishing places from persons and by selecting the most likely place out of a list of homographic place names world-wide. The system uses a number of language-independent clues and heuristics to disambiguate place name homographs. The final aim is to index texts with the countries and cities they mention and to automatically visualise this information on a geographical map. |
| JRC Directorate: | Space, Security and Migration |
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