Semantic Similarities between Locations based on Ontology

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Authors

SHERWANI Moiz Khan SOJKA Petr CALIMERI Francesco

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2017
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Faculty of Informatics

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Web
Field Informatics
Keywords toponym disambiguation; geonames; geographic text retrieval; ontology based geoname relations; toponym similarity
Description Toponym disambiguation or location names resolution is a critical task in unstructured text, articles or documents. Our research explores how to link ambiguous locations mentioned in documents, news and articles with latitude/longitude coordinates. We designed an evaluation system for toponym disambiguation based on annotated GEOCLEF data. We implemented a node-based approach taking population into account and a geographic distance-based approach. We have proposed new approach based on edges between the pairs of toponyms in ontology, taking also population attribute into account. Our edge-based approach gave better results than population and distance-based only approaches. The results could be used in any information system dealing with texts containing geographic locations, such as news texts.
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