Location Name Disambiguation Exploiting Spatial Proximity and Temporal Consistency

Takashi Awamura, Eiji Aramaki, Daisuke Kawahara, Tomohide Shibata, Sadao Kurohashi

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Abstract

As the volume of documents on the Web increases, technologies to extract useful information from them become increasingly essential. For instance, information extracted from social network services such as Twitter and Facebook is useful because it contains a lot of location-specific information. To extract such information, it is necessary to identify the location of each location-relevant expression within a document. Previous studies on location disambiguation have tackled this problem on the basis of word sense disambiguation, and did not make use of location-specific clues. In this paper, we propose a method for location disambiguation that takes advantage of the following two clues: spatial proximity and temporal consistency. We confirm the effectiveness of these clues through experiments on Twitter tweets with GPS information.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocialNLP 2015@NAACL - 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Proceedings of the Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643488
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, SocialNLP 2015, associated with NAACL 2015 - Denver, United States
Duration: 2015 Jun 5 → …

Publication series

NameSocialNLP 2015@NAACL - 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, SocialNLP 2015, associated with NAACL 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period15/6/5 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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