Edinburgh Geoparser Documentation

Contents:

• Introduction
• Quick Start Guide
  • Installation
  • Running the Pipeline
    • Visualisation output: -o
    • Single placename markers: -top
    • Input type and gazetteer: -t -g
    • Docdate: -d
    • Limiting geographical area: -l -lb
    • DEEP only options: -c -r
• Overview of Software Structure
  • File Layout
  • Flowcharts
• Practical Examples
  • Modern text
  • Historical documents (relating to England)
  • Classical texts
  • Using pre-formatted input
    • Google Books format
    • XML input
• The Pipeline
  • Geotagging
    • Introduction
    • Pipelines
    • The preparetext Component
    • The tokenise Component
    • The postag Component
    • The lemmatise Component
    • The nertag Component
    • The chunk Component
    • Visualising output
  • Georesolution
    • Gazetteer Lookup
    • Ranking
    • Formatting Output
• Gazetteers
  • Online Resources
  • Options for Local Gazetteers
    • Example Setup: Geonames
    • Example Setup: Pleiades+
• The Edina Unlock Service
  • Unlock Places
  • Unlock Text
• Appendix 1: LT-TTT2 Tutorial
• Appendix 2: LTG Publications about the Geoparser