Reading again today (and keeping the machine working).
Trying to find out how people have done geoparsing in the past, whether they try to use context, and if so how. I am hoping to take the view that the other georefs in a page are all the context needed and to use gazetteers to work out the relationships between them. This has been done before, but I am not sure anyone has investigated why certain assumptions should hold. Most of it has been done with implementation in mind and evaluated by testing the results.
Types of context:
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distant (like other georefs)
sliding window of georefs
uses:
positive (it is Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
negative (it is John Sheffield, a name and therefore not a place)
nearest places
supporting places
wrappers use REs to look at html near place names (or better find likely placename sections)
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