The volume of spatial information on the Web grows continuously, both as maps and as references to places in documents and pages. Considering user needs for spatial information, it is often necessary to determine the places ...

Geoparsing é a tarefa de recuperação de informação geográfica que lida com o reconhecimento das referências a lugares contidas nos textos. Além do geoparsing, duas outras tarefas são usadas para resolver o Problema de ...

Gazetteers are instrumental in recognizing place names in documents such as Web pages, news, and social media messages. However, creating and maintaining gazetteers is still a complex and demanding task. We propose using ...

Biodiversity studies all life forms that we find in nature. The maintenance of biological diversity is importante because it is essential to life on Earth. The lack of accurate spatial geographic information in species ...

Describes the situation in British Guiana in 1862 when Francis Hincks arrived as Governor stating that there had been partitioning of the communal villages which resulted in land fragmentation followed by serious drainage ...

Vivian Remy grew up in Belmont and knew many of the prominent families and had a good recollection about this area

In the beginning of the 19(th) century, the first Brazilian scientific knowledge journal on medicinal plants the Gazetas Medicas was launch reporting Brazilian medicinal plants belonging to several botanical families. the ...