Dictionary Of Place Names Research Articles

Development of a Japanese 'GIS place name dictionary' as a basis for interdisciplinary research

Development of a Japanese 'GIS place name dictionary' as a basis for interdisciplinary research

Toponymic Dictionary of Kalmykia Review of the book: Gedeeva, D. B., Ubushieva, B. E., Lidzhieva, L. A., & Barinova, B. V. (Eds.). (2019). Slovar’ toponimov Respubliki Kalmykiia [Toponymic Dictionary of the Republic of Kalmykia]. Elista: KalmNTs RAS. 344 p.

The paper reviews the “Dictionary of Place Names of the Republic of Kalmykia” compiled by scientists of the Kalmyk State University and published in 2019. It is primarily focused on toponyms collected during the expeditions of 2013–2017 but also includes the names extracted from other sources (maps, works of Kalmyk writers, scientific works). The book comprises more than 2,400 entries and today is the most complete bilingual (Russian and Kalmyk) on the toponymy of the Republic. The etymologies provided for the majority of names make the dictionary a rich source of information about the material and spiritual culture of the Kalmyks and their vision of the surrounding geographical space. The toponymy recorded in the dictionary builds a larger picture of Kalmyk generic sub-ethnonyms and personal names corpus, including archaic ones. In this vein, apart from discussing the “formal” features of the dictionary, the review analyzes the culturally significant layers of Kalmyk toponyms presented there (names of steppe burial mounds, water bodies, sacred places, etc.). Considering the prospects of making a new, even more complete version of the dictionary, the reviewer gives her recommendations on advancing the etymological research and the improvement of the reference part of this edition.

Epidemic-related sites in covid-19 media reports

Background: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, the Chinese government has formed a mode of information disclosure. More than 400 cities have announced specific location information for newly diagnosed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia, including residential areas or places of stay. We have established a conditional random field model and a rule-dependent model based on Chinese geographical name elements. Taking Guangdong Province as an example, the identification of named entities and the automatic extraction of epidemic-related sites are carried out. This method will help locate the spread of the epidemic, prevent and control the spread of the epidemic, and gain more time for vaccine clinical trials. Methods: Based on the presentation form of the habitual place or place of stay of the diagnosed cases in the text of the web page, a conditional random field model is established, and a rule-dependent model is established according to the combination rule of the elements of the place words and the place name dictionary composed of provinces, cities and administrative regions. Findings: The results of the analysis based on the conditional random field model and the rule-dependent model show that the location of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia in Guangdong Province in mid-February is mainly concentrated in Guangzhou，Shenzhen，Zhuhai and Shantou Cities. In Guangzhou, Futian District has more epidemicsites and Huangpu and Conghua District have fewer epidemic sites. Government officials in Guangzhou City should pay attention to Futian District. Interpretation: Governments at all levels in Guangzhou Province have intervened to control the epidemic through various means in mid-February. According to the results of the model analysis, we believe that the administrative regions with more diagnosed locations should focus on and take measures such as blockades and control of personnel flow to control the disease in those administrative regions to avoid affecting other adjacent administrative regions.

WEB PLACE NAME DICTIONARY IMPLEMENTATION USING TWITTER AS SOURCE TO DEVELOP TRAFFIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

Abstract Congestion is one of the severe problems that occurs in big cities like Jakarta, the center of the Indonesian government. One alternative solution to solve this problem is with a Traffic Information System which is easily accessible by the public. Twitter as a social media can be used as one of information source to develop the Traffic Information System. The most common problem in the processing of information on Twitter, especially in Indonesia, is the use of abbreviations and typographical error (typo). We propose an application of Web Place Name Dictionary in addressing abbreviations and typos in the name of the location contained on Twitter to develop a Traffic Information System. Three cases in find coordinate point in the street that derived from location name in Twitter can be handled through the proposed system. This system produces 90% accuration rate on 100 data set that obtained via @TMCPoldaMetro. This study only focus on the implementation of Web Place Name Dictionary method so we do not compare our system with the other methods.

The Battle-site and Place-name Ringmere

A battle won by the Danes against the English is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 1010,1 and this is located at a place called Ringmere in the chronicle attributed to Florence of Worcester (said to have died in 1118).2 This battle-site assumed a literary existence as Hringmaraheiðr in several Norse sagas and poems, details of which are given by Townend,3 and as Ringhemere in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman life of St Edmund by Piramus.4 All authorities have assumed that the site is in Norfolk, at the small lake currently called Ringmere, 6km north-east of Thetford (grid reference TL909879). This identification goes back at least to Stevenson.5 But these authors cite no evidence that the name of the Norfolk Ringmere is old, and no place-name dictionary gives any early forms. My own searches, including in the Norfolk Record Office, have turned up no reference...

Bemerkungen aus sprachhistorischer Sicht zur ältesten Urkunde von Greiz und ihrer landesgeschichtlichen Auswertung

In 2009 the oldest documents concerning the place Greiz in Eastern Thuringia were published by a historian. This article now provides a linguistic approach to that publication and its interpretation of the mentioned area in Medieval times. The results may be considered as a contribution to a book of reference for place names of Eastern Thuringia. In this respect some questions have been asked, e. g. whether the region along the river Weiße Elster between the places Weida and Plauen had really been an unsettled area until the 12th century. There is hard evidence that the historian’s assumptions are wrong because of the obvious Slavonic names of settlements in this area dating from the 8th until the 10th centuries. Based on a document from 1209 – respectively its copy from 1510 – as well as on a document from 1225 several facts are discussed in detail with consequences for toponymy and history of settlement with the help of historical linguistics. Thus it becomes evident that it is necessary to exchange ideas and to communicate for representatives of history as well as linguistics. At the same time it is obvious that the publication of documents and their analysis by historians will always be very helpful for linguistic exploitation. As a result the prospective edition of a historical dictionary of place names in Thuringia or of Eastern Thuringia respectively has been asserted as dependent on the continuous co-operation between historians and linguists.

Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles

Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles

Supplement to an Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

Supplement to an Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

An Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

An Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

An Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

An Accented Dictionary of Place Names in the Soviet Union

The New Mexico Place-Name Dictionary: A Polyglot in Six Languages

To A LINGUIST UNDERTAKING A PLACE NAME DICTIONARY, the road seemed clear and relatively straight. A name is name, as a rose is rose, or so it seemed to me, and although I knew collecting would be arduous, still there did not seem to be much ahead that was needlessly complicated or likely to perplex. I was naive. In the area I was to work, the name structure is like geology with stratification of early language deposits underlying later ones and with individual structures emerging as result of linguistic erosion, folds and faults, plus the irregularities caused by time and cultural evolution. Many of the name districts in the United States have mixture of language stocks similar to those in New Mexico, but not many have so large group of aboriginal language forms and few have time cycle that is so long. Complicated though these problems were (and still are), they were never lacking in interest, and the solution was always challenge. The matter of transfer or translingualization from one language to another was problem for phonologist in primitive as well as historical linguistics. Therefore, as the title of my paper indicates, The New Mexico Place Name Dictionary is polyglot drawn from six languages. Of the aboriginal Indian tongues, dating in North America from perhaps the 5th century A.D. to the first European contacts in 1536' (when Cabeza de Vaca became the first non-Indian to leave record about the Southwest), there were four which had contributed to both the field names and the settlement names. These were and still are: Tanoan, with three sub-groups: Tiwa (Taos, Picuris, Sandia, Isleta pueblos); Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso und Pojoaque now defunct, Nambe, Tesuque, Hanoin what is today the Hopi reservation);

Second Collection, "New Mexico Place-Name Dictionary"

Second Collection, "New Mexico Place-Name Dictionary"