Recognition and Disambiguation of geographical references in text
Nov 26, 2007 3343 views 
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We present an approach to recognise geographical references in multilingual documents and to disambiguate homographic place names. The purpose of this work is to provide users with meta-information about documents (or whole collections) and to present their geographical coverage visually. The approach has been implemented for sixteen languages and is a fully operational part of the online news analysis system NewsExplorer (http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer) and further JRC applications.