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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Gazetteers"”.
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Representing Mount Wutai's Past: A Study of Chinese and Japanese miracle tales about the Five Terrace Mountain
… diaries, statuary sets, temple chronicles, local gazetteers, and inscriptions preserved in China and Japan. Comparing the different portrayals of the mountain in these five primary narratives together with many other miracle tales set at the mountain, this thesis attempts to explain how and for …
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Eating Edo, sensing Japan: food branding and market culture in late Tokugawa Japan, 1780-1868
… Cookbooks, travel and shopping guides, and gazetteers introduced different kinds of foods, including regional specialties, prestigious food shops, which contracted the bakufu and other powerful officials, luxury foods to which commoners did not have access, and foods, eating of which was …
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Later prehistoric and Roman rural settlement and land-use in western Transylvania
… data (excavation and field walking reports; gazetteers) and relevant information from historical maps. Al the material has been analysed utilising a relational database linked to a GIS. The results provide a complex reconsideration on a more realistic and up-to-date basis of previous theories …
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Minimally-supervised Methods for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
… NEs does not require annotated training data or gazetteers. It only requires, for each NE type, a seed list of a few instances to initiate the learning process. Novel aspects of our algorithm include (i) a new way to produce and generalise the extraction patterns (ii) a new filtering criterion to …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… United States, including printed books, local gazetteers, technical drawings, cartographic evidence, patents, financial records, and legal documents. This evidence reveals the surprising extent of Sino-British interaction, marked by both technological divergence and counterintuitive …
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Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems
… the common spatial information provided by most gazetteers, such as centroid coordinates and administrative hierarchies. Place co-ordinates were used to measure similarity of places according to Euclidean distances, while the hierarchical associations of places were useful to measure place …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… built with, the number of map users and improved gazetteers with more comprehensive coverage of vague terms. Therefore, the developed methods, algorithm and applications in this study can be beneficial to researchers in social and e-social sciences, those who are interested in developing and …
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Named entity recognition for Icelandic: comparing and combining different machine learning methods
… that used word features, but also made use of gazetteers. These models, in addition to the neural model, were then combined in a single NER system, where a vote between the three decided the output (CombiTagger). We trained these methods on training sets of varying sizes, but the evaluation was …
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The Limits of Empire: The Qing-Gurkha War and China’s Trans-Himalayan Frontier, 1788–1793
… court records, official military annals, and gazetteers composed in multiple languages. Through this research, the dissertation meticulously reconstructs the intricate details of the Qing-Gurkha War and the decision-making processes within the Qing government, providing a nuanced understanding …
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Exploiting knowledge in NLP
… representations induced from unlabeled text and gazetteers extracted from Wikipedia to achieve new state of the art performance. We have investigated the implications of augmenting text representation with a set of Wikipedia concepts. The concepts can either be directly mentioned in the …
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… (*xiaoshuo*) and story anthologies, local gazetteers and other historiographies, literati notes and diaries, late-Qing newspapers, theatre reviews, as well as visual sources like theatrical paintings and photographs. These portrayals of women warriors in literature and drama complicate and …
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Mining entity and relation structures from text: An effort-light approach
… resources (e.g., grammars, vocabularies, and gazetteers). The “massive” and “messy” nature of text data poses significant challenges to creating tools for automated extraction of entity and relation structures that scale with text volume. State-of-the-art information extraction systems have …