• DocumentCode
    3305954
  • Title

    Extraction and Disambiguation of Name of Place from Tourism Blogs

  • Author

    Nakatoh, Tetsuya ; Yin, Chengjiu ; Hirokawa, Sachio

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. for Inf. Technol., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    19-20 Dec. 2011
  • Firstpage
    73
  • Lastpage
    78
  • Abstract
    By development of the Internet in recent years, tourism portal sites and blog articles about tourism increased on WWW. Acquisition of various tourism information became easy. When gathering and classifying the information automatically from blog articles, it is not easy to decide automatically place names used as the key. In this paper, we propose a method of extracting place names from blog articles automatically. Moreover, we also tried disambiguation of a place name.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; text analysis; travel industry; Internet; information classification; information gathering; place name disambiguation; place name extraction; tourism blog articles; tourism blogs; tourism information acquisition; tourism portal site; Blogs; Cities and towns; Context; Data mining; Databases; Dictionaries; Web pages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software and Network Engineering (SSNE), 2011 First ACIS International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0349-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SSNE.2011.29
  • Filename
    6150079