Author Archives: katefbyrne

Just a quick update on the Unlock Text interface I posted about last time… Eric noticed that the ‘gazref’ attribute doesn’t point back to the original source gazetteer – you needed a second interrogation of the server to get that info. That’s … Continue reading →

We haven’t posted in a while. Things have been happening… This is just a brief update on some recent work I’ve been doing with the geoparser. If I don’t make it brief it won’t happen at all. Way back in … Continue reading →

As promised a few posts back, I’m now going to bring the geoparsing report up to date with some notes about how we got on with processing large amounts of text, once we’d finished tweaking the Geoparser setup. Google kindly … Continue reading →

In my last post I promised some updates, so here’s a short report on the first two points: Improving the geotagging, so that we can find ancient place-name mentions more accurately in the input texts. Improving the georesolution, so we … Continue reading →

We’ve now finished the geoparsing work – all the source texts have been put through the pipeline to identify place-names (geotagging) and provide spatial co-ordinates for them (georesolution). Geoparsing is the first step for GAP, providing the material for the … Continue reading →

I’ve been aware for a while that there was a mismatch between the resources used by the Geoparser for geotagging (finding toponyms in text) and georesolution (determining their lat/long position) – and I’ve now got around to dealing with that. … Continue reading →

A quick update on what I’ve been up to recently, and plans for the next couple of weeks: I’ve experimented with combining Pleiades+ with geonames (ie looking up toponyms in both) but, as expected, this floods the results with too … Continue reading →

Now that the new extended version of the Pleiades name-set based on GeoNames (aka Pleiades+) is available, I’ve altered the Geoparser to use it as a gazetteer in the georesolving step for working out the geographical location of places mentioned … Continue reading →

I come to the GAP project from having worked on the Edinburgh Geoparser (see e.g. http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/online/1360.pdf), a tool that comprises of two main components: 1. The geotagger – which finds placename mentions in the text, and 2. The georesolver – … Continue reading →