@TechReport{Leidner:2006:TR,
  author = 	 {Leidner, Jochen L.},
  title = 	 {Toponym Resolution: A First Large-Scale Comparative Evaluation},
  institution =  {School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh},
  year = 	 {2006},
  type = 	 {Research Report},
  number = 	 {EDI--INF--RR--0839},
  address = 	 {Edinburgh, Scotland, UK},
  month = 	 {July},
  note = 	 {},
  annote = 	 {},
  abstract =     {Toponym resolution (TR) is the task of mapping the name of a location to a spatial representation of the location referred to, such as the centroid of the location, given as latitude/longitude.  While a number of systems for automating the task have been described in the literature, to date no comparative evaluation study has existed, mainly for lack of a standard benchmark (i.e., gazetteer and evaluation corpus). On the basis of a benchmark methodology and dataset, we present the first systematic account of the utility of different heuristics for the toponym resolution task, based on experimental comparison on two novel, large-scale gold-standard corpora.  Each heuristic's utility is evaluated in isolation, and in addition, two previously reported complex methods are replicated in full.},
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}