Evert Meijers, Antoine Peris &ndash; Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Using toponym co-occurrences to measure relationships between places: review, application and evaluation
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
nlp, coocurrences, toponymy, urban system, place name disambiguation, semantic relatedness
We innovate by exploiting a so far unparalleled amount of data, namely the billions of web pages contained in the commoncrawl web archive, and by applying the method also to small places that tend to be ignored by other methods. [...] we use the March 2017 data. The Common Crawl data comes in three formats, of which the WET format is most useful for the co-occurrence method as it only contains extracted plain text.