I just stumbled over this: " CLAVIN (Cartographic Location And Vicinity INdexer) is an award-winning open source (apache 2 license) software package for document geotagging and geoparsing that employs context-based geographic entity resolution.
It extracts location names from unstructured text and resolves them against a gazetteer to produce data-rich geographic entities. CLAVIN does not simply "look up" location names – it uses intelligent heuristics to identify exactly which "Springfield" (for example) was intended by the author, based on the context of the document. CLAVIN also employs fuzzy search to handle incorrectly-spelled location names, and it recognizes alternative names (e.g., "Ivory Coast" and "Côte d'Ivoire") as referring to the same geographic entity. By enriching text documents with structured geo data, CLAVIN enables hierarchical geospatial search and advanced geospatial analytics on unstructured data. " http://clavin.bericotechnologies.com/ Maybe this could be used as an enhancer for stanbol? -- Best Regards, Christian Ledermann Nairobi - Kenya Mobile : +254 702978914 <*)))>{ If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left, you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both. 1) Don’t drive species to extinction 2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on. 3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above. }<(((*>
