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Deep learning for toponym resolution: Geocoding based on pairs of toponyms / Jacques Fize in ISPRS International journal of geo-information, vol 10 n° 12 (December 2021)  

Public [article]  inISPRS International journal of geo-information > vol 10 n° 12 (December 2021) . - n° 818 Titre : Deep learning for toponym resolution: Geocoding based on pairs of toponyms Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jacques Fize, Auteur ; Ludovic Moncla , Auteur ; Bruno Martins, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 818 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Toponymie [Termes IGN] analyse de groupement [Termes IGN] apprentissage profond [Termes IGN] échantillonnage [Termes IGN] géocodage [Termes IGN] matrice de co-occurrence [Termes IGN] site wiki [Termes IGN] toponyme [Termes IGN] zone d'intérêt Résumé : (auteur) Geocoding aims to assign unambiguous locations (i.e., geographic coordinates) to place names (i.e., toponyms) referenced within documents (e.g., within spreadsheet tables or textual paragraphs). This task comes with multiple challenges, such as dealing with referent ambiguity (multiple places with a same name) or reference database completeness. In this work, we propose a geocoding approach based on modeling pairs of toponyms, which returns latitude-longitude coordinates. One of the input toponyms will be geocoded, and the second one is used as context to reduce ambiguities. The proposed approach is based on a deep neural network that uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units to produce representations from sequences of character n-grams. To train our model, we use toponym co-occurrences collected from different contexts, namely textual (i.e., co-occurrences of toponyms in Wikipedia articles) and geographical (i.e., inclusion and proximity of places based on Geonames data). Experiments based on multiple geographical areas of interest—France, United States, Great-Britain, Nigeria, Argentina and Japan—were conducted. Results show that models trained with co-occurrence data obtained a higher geocoding accuracy, and that proximity relations in combination with co-occurrences can help to obtain a slightly higher accuracy in geographical areas with fewer places in the data sources. Numéro de notice : A2021-927 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : TOPONYMIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/ijgi10120818 Date de publication en ligne : 02/12/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10120818 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99293 [article]