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COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Location Normalization for Information Extraction
Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf