A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching

2 code implementations • 17 Sep 2020 • Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kasra Hosseini, Katherine McDonough, Amrey Krause, Daniel van Strien, Federico Nanni

We report its performance on candidate selection in the context of the downstream task of toponym resolution, both on existing datasets and on a new manually-annotated resource of nineteenth-century English OCR'd text.

Entity Resolution Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +1