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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"toponym"”.
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Where are you talking about? Advances and Challenges of Geographic Analysis of Text with Application to Disease Monitoring
… is the process of extraction and grounding of toponyms (place names). Consider this sentence: "The victims of the Spanish earthquake off the coast of Malaga were of American and Mexican origin." Four toponyms will be extracted (called Geotagging) and grounded to their geographic coordinates …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… in 1891, as well as transitions in the Supomu toponym and modern political organization in the Shama traditional area. The island's importance in the region may have derived from its strategic location in the Pra River, which made it ideal for trade particularly in contraband, possibly …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… in 1891, as well as transitions in the Supomu toponym and modern political organization in the Shama traditional area. The island’s importance in the region may have derived from its strategic location in the Pra River, which made it ideal for trade particularly in contraband, possibly …
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Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things
… spaces can be mapped, the significance of toponyms (i.e., place-names), and the broader implications for literary and geographic studies. Of the fifty-two (52) toponyms analyzed, thirty-eight (38) were meaningfully identified using the text and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), revealing …