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Spatially aware systems available nowadays already proved to be able to change citizens life in a number of ways (GPS, car navigation systems, mobile devices such as digital camera with GPS, etc.). In recent years they also became available as web services and web applications oriented towards both to a business and customer audience (Viamichelin, Mapppy, Google maps, Yellow pages, etc.). However, there is still a huge gap to fill\u00a0 for\u00a0 connecting the core of the web with spatially aware applications, namely the fact that the backbone of the web is still based on pages written in human language<\/em>\u00a0and place names, addresses, points of interested, etc. are contained in those pages as manually written text<\/em>. LEILAS proposes to fill this gap by performing research on identification and georeferentiation of geographical named entities (mentions of places) as they appear in texts written by humans. In its purest form LEILAS<\/em> will deliver algorithms that, given a text, will “annotate” every mention of a place, an address, a point of interest with the exact spatial coordinates. The outcome of this research will be integrated in a set of services\/portals which will drive standard web users towards a navigation experience enriched with spatial localization.<\/p>\n

In LEILAS<\/em>, innovation is represented by the fine tuning\u00a0 natural language processing and semantic technologies for the identification of geographical named entities in texts, together with their integration with geographical information system for increasing precision in the identification and localization phases.\u00a0 LEILAS<\/em> will also propose a set of innovative services that take advantage from the possibilities offered by Web 2.0 and propose new and exciting ways of perceiving information both to the business and home community:<\/p>\n