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GeoNames

Known as: Geo Names Database, Geonames.org 
GeoNames is a geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.
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2018
2018
Learning to combine multiple string similarity metrics for effective toponym matching
ABSTRACT Several tasks related to geographical information retrieval and to the geographical information sciences involve toponym… 
2017
2017
Neural Embeddings for Populated Geonames Locations
The application of neural embedding algorithms (based on architectures like skip-grams) to large knowledge bases like Wikipedia… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
YAGO: A Multilingual Knowledge Base from Wikipedia, Wordnet, and Geonames
YAGO is a large knowledge base that is built automatically from Wikipedia, WordNet and GeoNames. The project combines information… 
Review
2016
Review
2016
Semantic Web in data mining and knowledge discovery: A comprehensive survey
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Assessment of the accuracy of GeoNames gazetteer data
Gazetteers are the basis of many geospatial applications and serve an important role to collect and make available knowledge… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
A Geo-semantics Flyby
Geospatial semantics as a research field studies how to publish, retrieve, reuse, and integrate geo-data, how to describe geo… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Event identification in web social media through named entity recognition and topic modeling
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Geospatial semantics and linked spatiotemporal data - Past, present, and future
The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Integrating Linked Data and Services with Linked Data Services
A sizable amount of data on the Web is currently available via Web APIs that expose data in formats such as JSON or XML… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Refining non-taxonomic relation labels with external structured data to support ontology learning
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