Approaches to Disambiguating Toponyms

Davide Buscaldi (1)

1 LIFO - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans

Many approaches have been proposed in recent years in the context of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), mostly in order to deal with geographically constrained information in un-structured texts. This paper presents an overview of the existing methods, providing a state-of-the-art of toponym disambiguation.

Mots clés: Toponym Disambiguation; GIS; Geographic Information Retrieval; Geography in Texts

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Davide Buscaldi. Approaches to Disambiguating Toponyms. SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011, 3 (2), pp.16-20. ⟨hal-00627118⟩