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Egoitz Laparra

2 accepted papers

2024

Improving Toponym Resolution by Predicting Attributes to Constrain Geographical Ontology Entries

NAACL 2024short

Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured geospatial data.We propose a new prompt-based paradigm for geocoding, where the machine learning algorithm encodes only the location mention and its context.We design a transformer network for predicting the country, state…

2020

A Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Complex Geographical Description Parsing

COLING 2020main

Much previous work on geoparsing has focused on identifying and resolving individual toponyms in text like Adrano, S.Maria di Licodia or Catania. However, geographical locations occur not only as individual toponyms, but also as compositions of reference geolocations joined and modified by connectiv…