'Metonymy'is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of
shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words …

The Definitive Volume on Cutting-Edge Exploratory Analysis of Massive Spatial and
Spatiotemporal DatabasesSince the publication of the first edition of Geographic Data …

Around the turn of the century the Dutch language Union commissioned a survey that aimed
to take stock of the availability of basic language resources for the Dutch language …

Empirical methods in geoparsing have thus far lacked a standard evaluation framework
describing the task, metrics and data used to compare state-of-the-art systems. Evaluation is …

In this paper, we review the current literature on geographic information retrieval based on
place names. We focus on the positional uncertainties and the extent of vagueness …

News sources on the Web generate constant streams of information, describing many
aspects of the events that shape our world. In particular, geography plays a key role in the …

Fictive motion (eg 'The highway runs along the coast') is a pervasive phenomenon in
language that can imply both a static and a moving observer. In a corpus of alpine …

Research has illustrated that metaphors and metonyms are concepts that govern thought
and action, playing a central role in constructing realities. While previous studies have …