A confidence-based framework for disambiguating geographic terms

  • Authors:
  • Erik Rauch;Michael Bukatin;Kenneth Baker

  • Affiliations:
  • MetaCarta, Inc., Cambridge, MA;MetaCarta, Inc., Cambridge, MA;MetaCarta, Inc., Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe a purely confidence-based geographic term disambiguation system that crucially relies on the notion of "positive" and "negative" context and methods for combining confidence-based disambiguation with measures of relevance to a user's query.