Paper Info
Title
Acquisition Of Vernacular Place Names From Web Sources
Abstract
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these names should reflect peoples perception of the place, even though this may differ sometimes from the administrative definition of the same place name. Due to their informal nature, vernacular place names are hard to capture, but methods to acquire and define vernacular place names are of great benefit to search engines and all kinds of information services that deal with geographic data. This paper discusses the acquisition of vernacular use of place names from web sources and their representation as surface models derived by kernel density estimators. We show that various web sources containing user created geographic information and business data can be used to represent neighbourhoods in Cardiff, UK. The resulting representations can differ in their spatial extent from administrative definitions. The chapter closes with an outlook on future research questions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-00570-1_10
WEAVING SERVICES AND PEOPLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Keywords
Field
DocType
information retrieval,search engine,kernel density estimate
Toponymy,Information system,World Wide Web,Vernacular,Computer science,Spatial extent,Perception,Business data
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florian A. Twaroch1634.89
Christopher B. Jones2106795.29
Alia I. Abdelmoty337241.27