The quality of gazetteer resource varies markedly, as does the cost.
Free ones:
UN LoCode http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm
NGIA GeoNet http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/
World Gazetteer http://www.world-gazetteer.com/
Arguably the most comprehensive is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
(TGN) but it costs close of $1K US.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
Regards
Baden
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Yunqing Xia wrote:
>
> Hi colleagues,
> Recognition of locational names is a task included in most NER evaluation
> schemes now. Although corpus learning techniques are powerful indeed, a
> gazetteer is still very necessary for quality recognition. So can anyone
> kindly suggest any link to a gazetteer for countries, place names, regions,
> etc? We hope the languague is English. Thanks a lot in advance.
>
>
> cheers,
> Vincent
>
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> Dr. Yunqing Xia, Vincent
> The Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Shatin, Hong Kong
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>
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