Some Japanese Place-Names Nominated by Foreigners

The Power of Syntopism: Chinese Poetic Place Names on the Map of Early Japanese Poetry

Ambiguous Place Names on the Web

Geographical information is achieving an increasing importance in the World Wide Web. Everyday, the number of users looking for geographically constrained information is growing. Map-based services, such as Google or Yahoo Maps provide users with a graphical interface, visualizing results on maps. However, most of the geographical information contained in web documents is represented by means o...

An Ontology of German Place Names

A dictionary of German toponyms (place names) was first constructed so that their linguistic features could be systematically described, i.e. their morphology and syntactic behaviour. The dictionary’s format is compatible with DELA (Courtois 2004), hence it can be used with Unitex and Intex (see Prolintex for a French equivalent). This software is used to implement local grammars which describe...

OE and ME cunte in place-names

Despite much discussion of the modern word, mysteries remain, both linguistic and sociological. Is it native OE, or borrowed from ON? Has the modern taboo always existed? I consider that the place-name evidence can contribute to these questions. However, there has not yet been a convenient corpus of all the surviving material. OED cites the street-name Gropecuntelane from Oxford c.1230 as its e...

GeoName: A System For Back-Transliterating Pinyin Place Names

To be unambiguous about a Chinese geographic name represented in English text as Pinyin, one needs to recover the name in Chinese characters. We present our approach to this back-transliteration problem based on processes such as bilingual geographic name lookup, name suggestion using place name character and pair frequencies, and confirmation via a collection of monolingual names or the WWW. E...