4 accepted papers
Geocoding is a fundamental technique that links location mentions to their geographic positions, which is important for understanding texts in terms of where the described events occurred. Unlike most geocoding studies that targeted coarse-grained locations, we focus on geocoding at a fine-grained p…
Lexical normalization research has sought to tackle the challenge of processing informal expressions in user-generated text, yet the absence of comprehensive evaluations leaves it unclear which methods excel across multiple perspectives. Focusing on unsegmented languages, we make three key contribut
Human traveling trajectories play a central role in characterizing each travelogue, and automatic trajectory extraction from travelogues is highly desired for tourism services, such as travel planning and recommendation. This work addresses the extraction of human traveling trajectories from travelo…
Morphological analysis (MA) and lexical normalization (LN) are both important tasks for Japanese user-generated text (UGT). To evaluate and compare different MA/LN systems, we have constructed a publicly available Japanese UGT corpus. Our corpus comprises 929 sentences annotated with morphological a…