Oracle Corporation
Toponym disambiguation

Abstract:

Techniques are disclosed for toponym disambiguation. Toponym disambiguation can be performed for a set of geographic location data, such as placenames. A subset of the data and additional location information associated with the subset of the data can be initially determined. The remaining geographic location data in the set of geographic location data can be scored in order to determined additional location information for the remaining geographic location data. Additional location information for the remaining geographic location data can be determined based on calculated scores.