Embedding GeoCrossWalk

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The Embedding GeoCrossWalk project sought to provide a deeper understanding of how references to place in structured texts can be researched and automatically extracted.
The project aims were threefold. Firstly it sought to deploy the Geoparser tool, developed previously by the Language Technology Group of Edinburgh University's School of Informatics, to georeference the Stormont Papers, using Natural language Processing (NLP). The project used the Geoparser in conjunction with GeoNames, an open-source global gazetteer, to identify, tag and (where appropriate) disambiguate all references to location. Secondly, the project refined and developed a better understanding of the Geoparser toll's application to content to this kind, and highlighted. Finally, it laid the foundations for an expanded geospatial browsing capability for the Stormont collections, which will be implemented alongside the existing interface.

Funders:

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

arts-humanities.net

Principal project staff:

Sheila Anderson, Stuart Dunn, Claire Grover, Paul Ell

Start date:

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Completion date:

Monday, June 1, 2009

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The collection used was the Hansards (proceedings) of the Lower House of the devolved "Stormont papers".

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Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

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Promotional materials were developed and distributed at major conferences including Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts (September 2009), where a short presentation was given to the JISC projects meeting, and on the CeRch/CLARIN/DARIAH stand at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (December 2009).

A seminar paper on the project, and the geoparsing aspects therein, was solicited by HumLab, University of Umea, Sweden (October 2009).

A full paper, Use of the Edinburgh Geoparser for Georeferencing Digitised Historical Collections by C. Grover, Richard Tobin, Kate Byrne, Matthew Woollard, James Reid, Stuart Dunn and Julian Ball was accepted for the e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009, and a full manuscript has been submitted for publication in the proceedings.

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