Toponyms: sociocultural and political parameters

Disambiguating Toponyms in News

This research is aimed at the problem of disambiguating toponyms (place names) in terms of a classification derived by merging information from two publicly available gazetteers. To establish the difficulty of the problem, we measured the degree of ambiguity, with respect to a gazetteer, for toponyms in news. We found that 67.82% of the toponyms found in a corpus that were ambiguous in a gazett...

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...

Dutch Historical Toponyms in the Semantic Web

In early 2013, the website gemeentegeschiedenis.nl was launched. The website presents a uniquely identifiable web page for every municipality in the Netherlands since 1812. Each of these web pages provides internal relations to official spelling alternatives of their names, to toponyms of settlements within these municipalities, between former and current municipalities, and presents maps of al...

Sociocultural Linguistics

Association Mining of Folk Music Genres and Toponyms

This paper demonstrates how association rule mining can be applied to discover relations between two ontologies of folk music: a genre and a region ontology. Genre– region associations have been widely studied in folk music research but have been neglected in music information retrieval. We present a method of association rule mining with constraints consisting of rule templates and rule evalua...