Identifying and grounding descriptions of places

Simon E. Overell, Stefan M. Rüger
2006 Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval  
In this paper we test the hypothesis Given a piece of text describing an object or concept our combined disambiguation method can disambiguate whether it is a place and ground it to a Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names unique identifier with significantly more accuracy than naïve methods. We demonstrate a carefully engineered rule-based place name disambiguation system and give Wikipedia as a worked example with hand-generated ground truth and bench mark tests. This paper outlines our plans
more » ... o apply the co-occurrence models generated with Wikipedia to solve the problem of disambiguating place names in text using supervised learning techniques.
dblp:conf/gir/OverellR06 fatcat:un3hc372evezlpxvfl53afthda