A Vector Semantics Approach to the Geoparsing Disambiguation Task for Texts in Spanish
Nowadays, online news sources generate continuous streams of information that includes references to real locations. Linking these locations to coordinates in a map usually requires two steps involving the named entity: extraction and disambiguation. In past years, efforts have been devoted mainly to the first task. Approaches to location disambiguation include knowledge-based, map-based and data-driven methods. In this paper, we present a work in progress for location disambiguation in news documents that uses a vector-semantic representation learned from information sources that include events and geographic descriptions, in order to obtain a ranking for the possible locations. We will describe the proposed method and the results obtained so far, as well as ideas for future work.