Geocoding y GeoParsing. Converter RSS to GEORSS

[gsan...@gmail.com]

Hello.Good morning.


I want to implement a RSStoGEORSS Converter, to gecode news in my
department. These news are private information and then I can't use
Geonames WebServices.

I am researching some toolsets that let me several things:

1. Place Name Recognition
2. Place Name Disambiguation

I have many doubts, i need some a little of help, my questions are:

1. What kind of libraries (Java,C++) is Geonames using to Named Entity
Recognition?

Maybe, LING-PIPE o GATE, ...

2. Is Geonames using Heuristics Algorithm or Natural Processing
Language(NLP) ?

3. Is Geonames using Ontology Tecnhnologies?

4. What gazetteer is Geonames using?


Thanks very much.
Good Weekend.

[Marc Wick]

> 4. What gazetteer is Geonames using?

Are you pulling my leg?

Marc

[gsan...@gmail.com]

Sorry, threre is a software what is using Metacarta to obtain
georeferences place names from news, with its own gazetteer.
Obviously, the gazetteer of Geonames is Geonames, but my fourth
question meant , if Geonames is using others gazetteers.

Guillermo

[Marc Wick]

Hi gsantosgo

1. GeoNames is not using a Named Entity Recognition library.
2. GeoNames is using a mix between NLP, statistics and heuristics
3. No ontology technology is used
4. GeoNames. What else. It is the largest freely available Gazetteer.

There is a chapter on the GeoNames RSStoGeoRSS converter in the "The
Geospatial Web" covering some details of the implementation :
http://www.geospatialweb.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Geospatial-Web-Geobrowsers-Information-Processing/dp/1846288266/

Cheers

Marc