Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

Traditional gazetteers are built and maintained by authoritative mapping agencies. In the
age of Big Data, it is possible to construct gazetteers in a data-driven approach by mining …

The problem of automatic toponym resolution, or computing the mapping from occurrences
of names for places as found in a text to an unambiguous spatial footprint of the location …

This paper describes a method to automatically create and maintain gazetteers for Named
Entity Recognition (NER). This method extracts the necessary information from linguistic …

Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including
applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities …

In Information Extraction (IE), processing of named entities in text has traditionally been seen
as a two-step process comprising a flat text span recognition sub-task and an atomic …

Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term
semantics refers to the meaning of things, and is in contrast with the term syntactics …

The Web is a source of information for Location-Based Service (LBS) applications. These
applications lack postal addresses for the user's Point of Interests (POIs) such as schools …

As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place
types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be added or …

This research is aimed at the problem of disambiguating toponyms (place names) in terms of
a classification derived by merging information from two publicly available gazetteers. To …