Many natural language tasks related to geographic information retrieval (GIR) require toponym recognition, and identifying Chinese toponyms from social media messages share real-time is a critical problem for many practical applications, such as disaster response geolocating. In this article, we focused on recognition in Chinese. While existing off-the-shelf named entity (NER) tools could be ap...

This article examines the apparent practice among monks and regular canons in England before Dissolution of dropping their family surnames on admission/profession, adopting instead a new ‘monastic byname’, derived from place name (toponym) or, by late fifteenth century onwards, saint’s (hagionym) or virtue. The begins reviewing evidence that this onomastic existed determining how widespread it ...

This article is an offspring of Columba Kirk Session’s desire and request to change its name in favour Reverend Frederick Wele Ngxenge. A discussion the politics toponyms, with special reference Mission, central theme this article. In order have understanding why there was call for a change, it inescapable not consider some background discussions Rev. Ngxenge, who ministered Southern amaGcaleka...

An Arabic inscription most probably from the 19th century and some Kazakh ethnographic petroglyphs were found in valley 5 Eshkiolmes (Almaty region, Kazakhstan). The consists of 12 characters does not represent person who wrote it, but is a description landscape or, possibly, name toponym. This associated with petroglyph zoomorph, raising question relation between depicted animal. Moreover, thi...