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  <Title>Geographic reference analysis for geographic document querying</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The work presented in this paper concerns passage extraction from geographical documents. We focused on the most characteristic aspect of the project, namely the interpretation of the spatial component of texts and queries. We first described a linguistic analyser which performs a semantic analysis of expressions denoting geographical localisations. This analyser is operationnal and will in the future be developped and experimented, in order to cope with a greater variety of expression and cover large corpora. Then we addressed the question of the actual querying of text. We outlined a method for matching user requests with the computed representations of spatial expressions. We believe that some aspects of this process can be readily implemented. However it also raises some difficult questions, we plan to investigate in the next future.</Paragraph>
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