This contribution re-assesses the broken toponym in so-called Nabonidus chronicle, which refers to goal of Cyrus’s war campaign 547 BC and has been variously identified as either Lydia or Urartu. The authors iterate that connection with is based mainly on information gleaned from Greco-Roman sources dubious chronological value, where Cyrus’ overthrow Croesus’ empire conventionally dated mid-540...

In this work we attempted to determine the relative importance of the geographical and WordNet-extracted terms with respect to the remainder of the query. Our system is based on Lucene and uses LingPipe for Named Entity recognition. Geographical terms are expanded with WordNet holonyms and synonyms and indexed separately. We checked the relative importance of the terms by boosting them with red...

There have been numerous and varied research efforts to automate point-feature label placement (PFLP). It seems that many well-established precepts for pointfeature annotation used by human cartographers have been neglected so far. As a consequence, the currently implemented, fully automated solutions are limiting computer generated maps in their expressive power. In this paper we present a com...

Fictitious personal names and toponyms are not infrequent in legal casenotes as used for didactic purposes nowadays. There is a long tradition of fictitious names being used in the legal literature. The problem with medieval or early modern legal (here, rabbinical) responsa is that if they are used as evidence for historical purposes, as though they were chronicles, confusion may occurs. Histor...

A functional and systematic typology of toponyms is an essential instrument for the toponymist wishing to investigate naming practices patterns a region. To this end, Australian National Placenames Survey developed toponym Australia (Tent & Blair 2011). This was characterized as ‘typology motivations naming’. Although various researchers have used with seeming success, further applicati...

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...