Mining the web to detect place names

Authors:
Florian A. Twaroch;Philip D. Smart;Christopher B. Jones
Affiliations:
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales Uk;Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales Uk;Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales Uk
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Year:
2008

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Abstract

With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information to Web resources. We investigate how often people refer to a place using locative phrases in web queries and address the problem of defining cognitively significant place names. We propose Web mining as a means to decide whether a given particular named entity is in fact a place.