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  <Title>Experiments with geographic knowledge for information extraction Dimitar Manov,</Title>
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8 Conclusion and future work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presented work on the creation of a locations knowledge base and its use for information extraction.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In order to allow easy bootstrapping of IE to different languages and applications, we are building a knowledge base (KB) with entities of general importance, including geographic locations. The aim is to include the most important and frequently used types of Locations. An evaluation and comparison to high performance IE application was given.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The system is still under development and future improvements are envisaged, mainly related to implementing better disambiguation techniques (e.g., like those described in (Smith and Crane, 2001)) and experimenting with new ways of using the KB from the IE application.</Paragraph>
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