Title
Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, disambiguation and visualisation
Abstract
We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a mini- mum of language-dependent 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 geographical maps using various tools.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
information retrieval,cs,indexation,da,it,pt
Field
DocType
Volume
Toponymy,Geocoding,Information retrieval,Visualization,Computer science,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Journal
abs/cs/060
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2006), pp. 53-58. Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006
35
2.85
References 
Authors
2
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bruno Pouliquen167858.19
Marco Kimler2352.85
Ralf Steinberger394979.70
Camelia Ignat445642.11
Tamara Oellinger5393.68
Ken Blackler6352.85
Flavio FUART7646.75
Wajdi Zaghouani819721.27
Anna Widiger926915.89
Ann-charlotte Forslund10352.85
Clive Best11636.89