LREC 2006 - Proceedings sorted by papers

Title	Geocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation
Authors	B. Pouliquen, M. Kimler, R. Steinberger, C. Ignat, T. Oellinger, K. Blackler, F. Fluart, W. Zaghouani, A. Widiger, A. Forslund, C. Best
Abstract	We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependent resources, except a gazetteer. The main difficulty is to disambiguate these place names by distinguishing places from persons and by selecting the most likely place out of a list of homographic place names world-wide. The system uses a number of language-independent clues and heuristics to disambiguate place name homographs. The final aim is to index texts with the countries and cities they mention and to automatically visualise this information on geographical maps using various tools.
Keywords
Full paper	Geocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation

Title

Geocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation

Authors

B. Pouliquen, M. Kimler, R. Steinberger, C. Ignat, T. Oellinger, K. Blackler, F. Fluart, W. Zaghouani, A. Widiger, A. Forslund, C. Best

Abstract

We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependent resources, except a gazetteer. The main difficulty is to disambiguate these place names by distinguishing places from persons and by selecting the most likely place out of a list of homographic place names world-wide. The system uses a number of language-independent clues and heuristics to disambiguate place name homographs. The final aim is to index texts with the countries and cities they mention and to automatically visualise this information on geographical maps using various tools.

Keywords

Full paper

Geocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation