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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software and Network Engineering (SSNE), 2011 First ACIS International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0349-1
DOI :
10.1109/SSNE.2011.29
