Core Elements of Digital Gazetteers: Placenames, Categories, and Footprints
ECDL '00 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical Digital Library
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Introduction to the special issue on word sense disambiguation: the state of the art
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Disambiguation of proper names in text
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Geographic intention and modification in web search
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval
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Place name ambiguity is a sub-task of the more general problem of word sense disambiguation. Ide and Véronis [6] concisely define the problem of disambiguation as "matching the context of the instance of the word to be disambiguated with either information from an external knowledge source, or information about the contexts of the word derived from corpora." Thus, a set of words identified as a place name must be matched to the specific location on the Earth's surface that the author was referring to. The main difference between place name disambiguation and other disambiguation problems is implicit topological and geographic relationships between locations can be exploited for disambiguation.