Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical Digital Library

Smith, David A.

Crane, Gregory

2001

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  • Geographic interfaces provide natural, scalable visualizations for many digital library collections, but the wide range of data in digital libraries presents some particular problems for identifying and disambiguating place names. We describe the toponym-disambiguation system in the Perseus digital library and evaluate its performance. Name categorization varies significantly among different types ... read more
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