Toponym Extraction and Disambiguation Enhancement Using Loops of Feedback

Mena Badieh Habib, Maurice van Keulen

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Abstract

Toponym extraction and disambiguation have received much attention in recent years. Typical fields addressing these topics are information retrieval, natural language processing, and semantic web. This paper addresses two problems with toponym extraction and disambiguation. First, almost no existing works examine the extraction and disambiguation interdependency. Second, existing disambiguation techniques mostly take as input extracted named entities without considering the uncertainty and imperfection of the extraction process. In this paper we aim to investigate both avenues and to show that explicit handling of the uncertainty of annotation has much potential for making both extraction and disambiguation more robust. We conducted experiments with a set of holiday home descriptions with the aim to extract and disambiguate toponyms. We show that the extraction confidence probabilities are useful in enhancing the effectiveness of disambiguation. Reciprocally, retraining the extraction models with information automatically derived from the disambiguation results, improves the extraction models. This mutual reinforcement is shown to even have an effect after several automatic iterations.
Original languageUndefined
Title of host publicationKnowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 4th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2012, Barcelona, Spain, October 4-7, 2012, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsA. Fred, J.L.G. Dietz, K. Liu, J. Filipe
Place of PublicationBerlin Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer
Pages113-129
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-54104-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event4th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2012 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 4 Oct 20127 Oct 2012
Conference number: 4

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Number415
Volume415
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference4th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2012
Abbreviated titleIC3K
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period4/10/127/10/12

Keywords

  • Toponym RecognitionToponym ExtractionToponym DisambiguationToponym LinkingUncertain Annotations
  • EWI-24610
  • Uncertain Annotations
  • IR-90489
  • Toponyms Extraction
  • METIS-304041
  • Toponym Disambiguation

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