Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, disambiguation and visualisation

Bruno Pouliquen; Marco Kimler; Ralf Steinberger; Camelia Ignat; Tamara Oellinger; Ken Blackler; Flavio Fluart; Wajdi Zaghouani; Anna Widiger; Ann Charlotte Forslund; Clive Best

Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, disambiguation and visualisation

Bruno Pouliquen, Marco Kimler, Ralf Steinberger, Camelia Ignat, Tamara Oellinger, Ken Blackler, Flavio Fluart, Wajdi Zaghouani, Anna Widiger, Ann Charlotte Forslund, Clive Best

European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute

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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-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.

Original language	English
Pages	53-58
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 22 May 2006 → 28 May 2006

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Conference	5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genoa
Period	22/05/06 → 28/05/06

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Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, disambiguation and visualisation

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