TOPONYM RESOLUTION IN DISCOURSE

摘要：

Toponym Resolution involves two stages: toponym recognition and reference resolution. The present research proposes an integrative model for the resolution of Chinese toponym reference in discourse. The model employs the concept of cognitive salience, an inherent property of toponym references, to integrate different heuristic reference disambiguation methods into a coherent design. The heuristic methods involved in the model are category salience, geographic distance salience, co-occurrence frequency salience and discourse distance salience. An algorithm is also designed and implemented to evaluate the performance of the model. The evaluation is focused on the resolution of Chinese Toponyms within the linguistic unit of discourse. Experiments of evaluation report satisfactory results with a best precision of 91.1％ and a best recall of 73.6％ for reference resolution.

关键词： Cognitive salience discourse reference disambiguation toponym resolution toponym matching

作者: Xuri TANG Xiaohe CHEN Minxuan PENG

作者单位: Sch.of Language & Literature,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing,Jiangsu,P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering(IEEE NLP-KE 2008)(2008IEEE自然语言处理与知识工程国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-10-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）