Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2004
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009040
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“…Web-a-where [11], MetaCarta [12], and STEWARD [6]. The papers about the SPIRIT (Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval on the Internet) project [13 17] are a very good starting point.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Web-a-where [11], MetaCarta [12], and STEWARD [6]. The papers about the SPIRIT (Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval on the Internet) project [13 17] are a very good starting point.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, there can be multiple names for the same geographic location, such as Los Angeles and LA . Finding geographical references in text is a very di cult problem and there have been some papers that deal with di erent aspects of this problem [6,11,12].…”
Section: Spatial Indexingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In fact, there are two types of toponyms ambiguity, the geo/geo ambiguity and the geo/non-geo ambiguity (Amitay et al, 2004).The geo/geo ambiguity arises when a toponym represents several places; for example, in TGN gazetteer (http://www.getty.edu/research/ conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn (last visit 20/08/2009)), Tripoli is the name of 16 places in the world. The geo/non-geo ambiguity appears when a place name refers also to either a non geographic entities (e.g., Arafat is a place name and also a person name) or has other senses (e.g., Java is a programming language and an Indonesian island).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, assigning to the ambiguous toponym the referent with the largest population (Amitay et al, 2004;Pouliquen et al, 2004;Rauch et al, 2003) or choosing the most frequent referent, for example if the toponym to be resolved is Gaza, applying this heuristic, the referent "Gaza>Palestine" will be chosen instead of "Gaza>USA" because the former is the most known (Stokes et al, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%