Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity
Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity
Introduction to algorithms
Using multiple knowledge sources for word sense discrimination
Computational Linguistics
Word sense disambiguation using a second language monolingual corpus
Computational Linguistics
A hybrid approach for named entity and sub-type tagging
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Integrating multiple knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense: an exemplar-based approach
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget's categories trained on large corpora
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On assigning place names to geography related web pages
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Detecting geographic locations from web resources
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Challenges and resources for evaluating geographical IR
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
InfoXtract: a customizable intermediate level information extraction engine
SEALTS '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Software engineering and architecture of language technology systems - Volume 8
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
Geographic Named Entity Disambiguation with Automatic Profile Generation
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Mining geographic knowledge using location aware topic model
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
STEWARD: architecture of a spatio-textual search engine
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Infoxtract: A customizable intermediate level information extraction engine
Natural Language Engineering
A georeferencing multistage method for locating geographic context in web search
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Extracting geographic features from the Internet to automatically build detailed regional gazetteers
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Extracting Geographic Context from the Web: GeoReferencing in MyMoSe
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
Arabic cross-document person name normalization
Semitic '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources
TWinner: understanding news queries with geo-content using Twitter
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
Extraction and exploration of spatio-temporal information in documents
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
SEM: mining spatial events from the web
PAKDD'08 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
An efficient location extraction algorithm by leveraging web contextual information
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Calculation of target locations for web resources
WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Event-centric search and exploration in document collections
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
Joint inference of named entity recognition and normalization for tweets
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
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Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named 'Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as 'Canada', 'Brazil' and 'China' are also city names in the USA. Almost every city has a Main Street or Broadway. Such ambiguity needs to be handled before we can refer to location names for visualization of related extracted events. This paper presents a hybrid approach for location normalization which combines (i) lexical grammar driven by local context constraints, (ii) graph search for maximum spanning tree and (iii) integration of semi-automatically derived default senses. The focus is on resolving ambiguities for the following types of location names: island, town, city, province, and country. The results are promising with 93.8% accuracy on our test collections.