Georeference Assignment of Locations based on Context

8 pages•Published: November 4, 2019

Shanel Reyes-Palacios, Edwin Aldana-Bobadilla, Ivan Lopez-Arevalo and Alejandro Molina-Villegas

Abstract

Modern Text Mining techniques seek for extract information in useful formats such as georeferences in digital documents. Automatic recognition of location names in texts is usually solved through Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems. Most current NER are based on Machine Learning and have very high accuracy in detection of location entities in digital documents, especially if the texts are in English due to the lack of available an- notated corpora in other languages. However, recent studies are dealing with the challenge of taking the output labels of a NER system and then gather, from a gazetteer, their exact unambiguous geographical coordinates. This is challenging mainly because toponyms use to be very ambiguous, so research in disambiguation methods is relevant. In this paper we describe some of the main ideas towards a method to associate locations with geographical data removing possible confusion between entities with the same name. So far, we have already accomplished Geographic NER and coordinates retrieval but the main research is still in course. We largely discuss about the state of the art around Geoparsing; we explain how our Geographic Entity Recognition module works and finally we describe the research proposal focusing in ambiguity detection.

Keyphrases: geographic entity disambiguation, geographic entity recognition, geographic information extraction, geoparsing

In: Oscar S. Siordia, José Luis Silván Cárdenas, Alejandro Molina-Villegas, Gandhi Hernandez, Pablo Lopez-Ramirez, Rodrigo Tapia-McClung, Karime González Zuccolotto and Mario Chirinos Colunga (editors). Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences, vol 13, pages 39-46.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/SmGP
	https://doi.org/10.29007/nxnc

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{iGISc2019:Georeference_Assignment_Locations_based,
  author    = {Shanel Reyes-Palacios and Edwin Aldana-Bobadilla and Ivan Lopez-Arevalo and Alejandro Molina-Villegas},
  title     = {Georeference Assignment of Locations based on Context},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences},
  editor    = {Oscar S. Siordia and José Luis Silván Cárdenas and Alejandro Molina-Villegas and Gandhi Hernandez and Pablo Lopez-Ramirez and Rodrigo Tapia-McClung and Karime González Zuccolotto and Mario Chirinos Colunga},
  series    = {Kalpa Publications in Computing},
  volume    = {13},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2515-1762},
  url       = {/publications/paper/SmGP},
  doi       = {10.29007/nxnc},
  pages     = {39-46},
  year      = {2019}}

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