Toponym Resolution

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• A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching
  17 Sep 2020 2 repositories listed
  We report its performance on candidate selection in the context of the downstream task of toponym resolution, both on existing datasets and on a new manually-annotated resource of nineteenth-century English OCR'd text.
• Improving Toponym Resolution with Better Candidate Generation, Transformer-based Reranking, and Two-Stage Resolution
  18 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured data that encodes the geospatial semantics.
• Mordecai 3: A Neural Geoparser and Event Geocoder
  23 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Mordecai3 is a new end-to-end text geoparser and event geolocation system.
• How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?
  17 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  A vast amount of geographic information exists in natural language texts, such as tweets and news.
• Spatial Language Representation with Multi-Level Geocoding
  21 Aug 2020 1 repository listed
  We present a multi-level geocoding model (MLG) that learns to associate texts to geographic locations.
• Are We There Yet? Evaluating State-of-the-Art Neural Network based Geoparsers Using EUPEG as a Benchmarking Platform
  15 Jul 2020 1 repository listed
  In June 2019, a geoparsing competition, Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers, was held as one of the SemEval 2019 tasks.
• A Pragmatic Guide to Geoparsing Evaluation
  29 Oct 2018 1 repository listed
  Empirical methods in geoparsing have thus far lacked a standard evaluation framework describing the task, metrics and data used to compare state-of-the-art systems.
• A Coherent Unsupervised Model for Toponym Resolution
  4 May 2018 1 repository listed
  The evaluation shows that our method outperforms the unsupervised technique as well as Reuters OpenCalais and Google Cloud Natural Language API on all three corpora; also, our method shows a performance close to that of…