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What Kinds of Geographical Information Are There in the Portuguese Web?

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2006)

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This paper presents some results about the geographical information in the Portuguese web and the overlap with people’s and organization’s named entities, using a geographic ontology based on authoritative sources and a named entity recognizer.

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  1. Node of XLDB at University of Lisbon, Linguateca, Portugal

    Marcirio Silveira Chaves

  2. Node of Oslo at SINTEF ICT, Linguateca, Portugal

    Diana Santos

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil

    Renata Vieira

  2. Departamento de Informática, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  3. NILC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, CP 668P, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

  4. L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Email: qa-clef@l2f.inesc-id.pt, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede

  5. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Praça General Tibúrcio, 80, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cláudia Oliveira

  6. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Maria Carmelita Dias

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Chaves, M.S., Santos, D. (2006). What Kinds of Geographical Information Are There in the Portuguese Web?. In: Vieira, R., Quaresma, P., Nunes, M.d.G.V., Mamede, N.J., Oliveira, C., Dias, M.C. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3960. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751984_36

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