Geocoding aims to assign unambiguous locations (i.e., geographic coordinates) place names toponyms) referenced within documents (e.g., spreadsheet tables or textual paragraphs). This task comes with multiple challenges, such as dealing referent ambiguity (multiple places a same name) reference database completeness. In this work, we propose geocoding approach based on modeling pairs of toponyms...

Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. Still little known about whether the diversity toponyms affects human–nature relationships decisions humans on how to use certain parts landscape. To investigate this question, we combined approaches from social ecology in a comprehensive multidisci...