Identifying Geographic Terms within Natural Language Text

2008

Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad The huge amount of textual data available in digital form in today’s world increases the need for methods that facilitate ease of access and navigability. Automatic extraction of keywords from text bodies is one promising approach. However, the relevance of keywords are context dependent, and extracting relevant keywords often requires a semantic analysis, simply because words may have different meanings in different contexts. It is well-known that resolving such word sense ambiguity automatically can be very challenging. When the topic of interest is geographic information, important keywords wo…