Defining and identifying the roles of geographic references within text

Humphrey Southall

Defining and identifying the roles of geographic references within text

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

139 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Reliably recognizing, disambiguating, normalizing, storing, and displaying geographic names poses many challenges. However, associating each name with a geographical point location cannot be the final stage. We also need to understand each name's role within the document, and its association with adjacent text. The paper develops these points through a discussion of two different types of historical texts, both rich in geographic names: descriptive gazetteer entries and travellers' narratives. It concludes by discussing the limitations of existing mark-up systems in this area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on analysis of geographic references. Vol. 1
Editors	A. Kornai, B. Sundheim
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	69-78
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2003
Event	HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of Geographic References - Edmonton, Canada Duration: 27 May 2003 → 1 Jun 2003

Workshop

Workshop	HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of Geographic References
Country/Territory	Canada
Period	27/05/03 → 1/06/03

Access to Document

2003_Identifying_Geog_Names_Edmonton.pdfAccepted author manuscript (Post-print), 230 KBLicence: CC BY-NC-SA

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1119394

Gazetteers and frameworks for information
Southall, H. & Aucott, P.
Arts & Humanities Research Council, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, European Commission, Leverhulme Trust, Frederick Soddy Trust
1/10/01 → …
Project: Research

Cite this

@inbook{e1c4281a98994f1bb443f78589a231f0,

title = "Defining and identifying the roles of geographic references within text",

abstract = "Reliably recognizing, disambiguating, normalizing, storing, and displaying geographic names poses many challenges. However, associating each name with a geographical point location cannot be the final stage. We also need to understand each name's role within the document, and its association with adjacent text. The paper develops these points through a discussion of two different types of historical texts, both rich in geographic names: descriptive gazetteer entries and travellers' narratives. It concludes by discussing the limitations of existing mark-up systems in this area.",

author = "Humphrey Southall",

note = "Additional Information: DOI: 10.3115/1119394.1119405.; HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of Geographic References ; Conference date: 27-05-2003 Through 01-06-2003",

year = "2003",

month = may,

day = "31",

language = "English",

pages = "69--78",

editor = "A. Kornai and B. Sundheim",

booktitle = "Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on analysis of geographic references. Vol. 1",

publisher = "ACM",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Defining and identifying the roles of geographic references within text

AU - Southall, Humphrey

N1 - Additional Information: DOI: 10.3115/1119394.1119405.

PY - 2003/5/31

Y1 - 2003/5/31

N2 - Reliably recognizing, disambiguating, normalizing, storing, and displaying geographic names poses many challenges. However, associating each name with a geographical point location cannot be the final stage. We also need to understand each name's role within the document, and its association with adjacent text. The paper develops these points through a discussion of two different types of historical texts, both rich in geographic names: descriptive gazetteer entries and travellers' narratives. It concludes by discussing the limitations of existing mark-up systems in this area.

AB - Reliably recognizing, disambiguating, normalizing, storing, and displaying geographic names poses many challenges. However, associating each name with a geographical point location cannot be the final stage. We also need to understand each name's role within the document, and its association with adjacent text. The paper develops these points through a discussion of two different types of historical texts, both rich in geographic names: descriptive gazetteer entries and travellers' narratives. It concludes by discussing the limitations of existing mark-up systems in this area.

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SP - 69

EP - 78

BT - Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on analysis of geographic references. Vol. 1

A2 - Kornai, A.

A2 - Sundheim, B.

PB - ACM

CY - New York

T2 - HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of Geographic References

Y2 - 27 May 2003 through 1 June 2003

ER -

Defining and identifying the roles of geographic references within text

Abstract

Workshop

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Projects

Gazetteers and frameworks for information

Cite this