WordNet has been used extensively as a resource for the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) task, both as a sense inventory and a repository of semantic relationships. Recently, we investigated the possibility to use it as a resource for the Geographical Information Retrieval task, more specifically for the toponym disambiguation task, which could be considered a specialization of WSD. We found tha...

The spatial distribution pattern of cultural resource generally manifests clustered qualification to some extent, and we can infer the vicissitudes of the correlative culture by analyzing the changing rule of the spatial distribution pattern of cultural resource. However, the majority of the concerned researches are still at the level of qualitative statistics and thematic map visualization of ...

This paper describes a set of experiments for monolingual English retrieval at GEO-CLEF 2005. We evaluate a technique for spatial retrieval based on named entity tagging, toponym resolution, and re-ranking by means of geographic filtering. To this end, we present a series of systematic experiments in the Vector Space paradigm. We investigate plain bag-of-word versus a kind of phrasal retrieval,...

Glocal News is a web app, a mashup of Google News and Google Maps, which attempts to visualize top local news, globally, in 70 languages. The news headlines, which are displayed on an infowindow, are provided by the public Google News RSS. The algorithm, built in JavaScript, uses geocoding in order to extract the toponym from a given location and the local storage technique in order to store th...

This paper addresses two problems with toponym extraction and disambiguation. First, almost no existing works examine the extraction and disambiguation interdependency. Second, existing disambiguation techniques mostly take as input extracted toponyms without considering the uncertainty and imperfection of the extraction process. It is the aim of this paper to investigate both avenues and to sh...

We describe an approach for connecting language and geography that anchors natural language expressions to specific regions of the Earth, implemented in our TextGrounder system. The core of the system is a region-topic model, which we use to learn word distributions for each region discussed in a given corpus. This model performs toponym resolution as a by-product, and additionally enables us t...

Focused crawler is a Web crawler that tries to download only pages that are relevant to a given topic of interest (Siemiński 2009, Almpanidis 2011). That is to say, it is necessary for focused crawler to calculate relevance between pages and specific topic (Rungsawang, 2005). Recently, the specific topic involving spatial information especially toponyms such as the topic about the Diaoyu Island...

UNLABELLED Diseases caused by zoonotic viruses (viruses transmittable between humans and animals) are a major threat to public health throughout the world. By studying virus migration and mutation patterns, the field of phylogeography provides a valuable tool for improving their surveillance. A key component in phylogeographic analysis of zoonotic viruses involves identifying the specific locat...

Toponym is rich in cultural connotations, which can help human beings understand the economy, culture, geography, religion of a certain region and stage. With increasing intercultural communication, exchange has been extended to people's work life significance influence toponym cross-cultural communication gradually highlighted. This paper compares similarities differences between Chinese Weste...

The article examines the peculiarities of language consciousness residents Yaroslavl region in age aspect. research is carried out on material toponyms Uglich, Tutaev and Pereslavl-Zalessky . A psycholinguistic experiment was conducted, including these stimuli, according to its results, associative fields were compiled for each toponym group separately. As a result semantic interpretation obtai...