A Gazetteer and Georeferencing for Historical English Documents. Grover, C. & Tobin, R. In Proceedings of LaTeCH 2014 at EACL 2014. Gothenburg, Sweden, pages 119–127. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
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We report on a newly available gazetteer of historical English place-names and describe how it was created from a recent digitisation of the Survey of EnglishPlace-Names, published by the English Place-Name Society (EPNS). The gazetteer resource is accessible via a number of routes, not currently as linked data but in formats that do provide connections between a number of different datasets. Inparticular, connections between the historical gazetteer and the Unlock1 and GeoNames2 gazetteer services have been established along with links to the Keyto English Place-Names database3. The gazetteer is available via the Unlock APIand in the final part of the paper we describe how the Edinburgh Geoparser, which forms the basis of Unlock Text, has been adapted to allow users to georeference historical texts.
@incollection{grover_gazetteer_2014,
	title = {A {Gazetteer} and {Georeferencing} for {Historical} {English} {Documents}},
	abstract = {We report on a newly available gazetteer of historical English place-names and describe how it was created from a recent digitisation of the Survey of EnglishPlace-Names, published by the English Place-Name Society (EPNS). The gazetteer resource is accessible via a number of routes, not currently as linked data but in formats that do provide connections between a number of different datasets. Inparticular, connections between the historical gazetteer and the Unlock1 and GeoNames2 gazetteer services have been established along with links to the Keyto English Place-Names database3. The gazetteer is available via the Unlock APIand in the final part of the paper we describe how the Edinburgh Geoparser, which forms the basis of Unlock Text, has been adapted to allow users to georeference historical texts.},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of {LaTeCH} 2014 at {EACL} 2014. {Gothenburg}, {Sweden}},
	publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
	author = {Grover, Claire and Tobin, Richard},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {119--127},
}

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