Extraction and Disambiguation of Name of Place from Tourism Blogs

By development of the Internet in recent years, tourism portal sites and blog articles about tourism increased on WWW. Acquisition of various tourism information became easy. When gathering and classifying the information automatically from blog articles, it is not easy to decide automatically place names used as the key. In this paper, we propose a method of extracting place names from blog articles automatically. Moreover, we also tried disambiguation of a place name.