Geographical Named Entity Recognizer

This service identifies geographical named entities and disambiguates them against GeoNames. The service currently makes use of the Mordecai3 geoparser; more details on Mordecai3 can be found in this paper.

Default annotations
:Location An annotation which spans each recognised location. Each annotation contains all the features extracted from the relevant GeoNames entry. The main features are:
  • geonameid, the ID of the location withing GeoNames
  • country_code3, the 3 letter ISO code for the country the place is in.
  • name, the name of the place which may differ from the recognized text span.
150 free requests / day
Larger batches £0.80 / CPU hour

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https://cloud-api.gate.ac.uk/process/geographical-ner

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