Natural language descriptions of geographical locations are used frequently in daily life and there is a motivation to create systems that generate such automatically, for purposes as documentation where events have taken place, person located, photos were plants animals located. Typically location combine references named features with vague spatial relational terms, near, north at relate the ...

Noting the poorly known historical geography of Elamite coastal region Persian Gulf during first half millennium BCE, author proceeds to contribute new knowledge on topic by investigating toponym(s) Nagitu, an settlement that appears quite frequently in Neo-Assyrian sources with various postpositions: Nagitu-raqqi “island-in-the-marshes”, Nagitu-di’bina “coastal town-of-rocks”, or Nagitu-of-Ela...

Научный журнал «Ученые записки Петрозаводского государственного университета» публикует результаты научных исследований в области естественных, технических, общественных и гуманитарных наук. Выходит 3-х сериях.

Natural language place descriptions in everyday communication provide a rich source of spatial knowledge about places. An important step to utilize such knowledge in information systems is geo-referencing all the places referred to in these descriptions. Current techniques for geo-referencing places from text documents are using place name recognition and disambiguation; however, place descript...

Extracting precise geographical information from the textual content, referred to as toponym recognition, is fundamental in retrieval and crucial a plethora of spatial analyses, e.g. mining location-based social media, news reports, surveys for various applications. However, performance existing recognition methods tools deficient supporting tasks that rely on extracting fine-grained geographic...

The research aims to present a technology of students’ toponymic literacy formation aimed at developing the ability navigate in geographical, cultural and linguistic space regional objects. paper describes sample models for compiling linguogeographical passport, linguoregional portrait linguocultural biography toponym as key means forming educational process. Scientific novelty work lies integr...