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selllikesybok on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

Unrelated to the OP, but what are you using to resolve place names to geography?

Seems to be mostly on target, but you get weird stuff like Camden Town (UK) -> Camden, New Jersey, US and it's common enough to notice.

xando on Oct 21, 2016 [–]

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/classifier.shtml I'm not too happy about it.

But, I planning to replace it with simple knuth morris pratt text search against the list of all significant locations. This 100x slower but results are rarely bad.

selllikesybok on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

Cool, thanks for taking the time to answer.

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