Ph.D. thesis (European doctorate mention) in Computer Science written by Davide Buscaldi under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia). The author was examined in Valencia in October 2010 by a panel composed by the following doctors: Paul David Clough (University of Sheffield), Ross Purves Universität Zürich), Emilio Sanchis Arnal (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia), Mark...

Increasingly user-generated content is being utilised as a source of information, however each individual piece of content tends to contain low levels of information. In addition, such information tends to be informal and imperfect in nature; containing imprecise, subjective, ambiguous expressions. However the content does not have to be interpreted in isolation as it is linked, either explicit...

Though modern linguistics pays great attention to the theory of nomination, in particular study thematic groups, dialectic names clothing items are among least commonly investigated types words. Indeed, no one best our knowledge has addressed question ethnonym and toponym-based clothes a variety Russian dialects. The aim present is broaden current given issue. core problem paper nominative mode...

We propose a new heuristic for toponym sense disambiguation, to be used when mapping toponyms in text to ontology concepts, using techniques based on semantic similarity measures. We evaluated the proposed approach using a collection of Portuguese news articles from which the geographic entity names were extracted and then manually mapped to concepts in a geospatial ontology covering the territ...

The study and research of geographical names, a separate administrative region, makes it possible to analyze how the influence role natural resources, history settlement development territory have affected life population. Geographical nomenclature certain is called toponymy this region. Toponymy especially important for such disciplines as physical geography, topography, local history, histori...

This article analyses the legends of Ural amateur miners (gorshchiks) — people who recover precious stones and gemstones as their private business. The folklore still remains virtually unstudied; that differentiates it from professional (gorniaks). research is based on field records various periods, both published unpublished. These are part card index Vocabulary, Toponymy, Ethnography Stone ke...