To date many methods and programs for automatic text recognition exist. However there are no effective text recognition systems for graphic documents. Graphic documents usually contain a great variety of textual information. As a rule the text appears in arbitrary spatial positions, in different fonts, sizes and colors. The text can touch and overlap graphic symbols. The text meaning is semanti...

In the research field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a cooperative effort has been undertaken by several international organizations to define standards and specifications for interoperable systems. The Web Processing Service (WPS) is one of the most recent specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It is designed to standardize the way that GIS calculations are made avai...

Named entity tagging comprises the sub-tasks of identifying a text span and classifying it, but this view ignores the relationship between the entities and the world. Spatial and temporal entities ground events in space-time, and this relationship is vital for applications such as question answering and event tracking. There is much recent work regarding the temporal dimension [13, 10], but no ...

The paper presents an analysis of personal and place names on the tombstones necropolises surveyed during a three-year fieldwork in Podlasie province (Hajnówka region), area high concentration Orthodox East Slavic population. Apart from reflecting local dialect features specific to language situation Polish-East borderland, these epigraphic inscriptions made Cyrillic are also confessional marke...

?ima?ki is one of the important toponyms in old elamite period. until now, there has been no agreement among archaeologists on the location of this toponym. this article wants to show why the kerman province cannot be the good candidate for this toponym. for this purpose, the authors used the archaeological and written documents. an important integrative analysis of archaeological survey data w...

This paper presents an innovative research resulting in the English-Lithuanian statistical factored phrase-based machine translation system with a spatial ontology. The system is based on the Moses toolkit and is enriched with semantic knowledge inferred from the spatial ontology. The ontology was developed on the basis of the GeoNames database (more than 15 000 toponyms), implemented in the we...

At present a lot of methods and programs for automatic text recognition exist. However there are no effective text recognition systems for graphic documents. Graphic documents usually contain a great variety of textual information. As a rule the text appears in arbitrary spatial positions, in different fonts, sizes and colors. The text can touch and overlap graphic symbols. The text meaning is ...

Named entity extraction (NEE) and disambiguation (NED) 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 (as a representative example of named entities). First, almost no existing works examine the extraction an...

This research proposes a method for capturing “relatedness between geographical entities” based on the co-occurrences of their names on web pages. The basic assumption is that a higher count of co-occurrences of two geographical places implies a stronger relatedness between them. The spatial structure of China at the provincial level is explored from the co-occurrences of two provincial units i...