Challenge: Existing methods to evaluate geoparsing systems are small-scale and lack coverage of location expressions on general domains.
Approach: They propose a method to construct a large-scale corpus for geoparsing from Wikipedia articles.
Outcome: The proposed method can annotate multiple location expressions with coordinates even with ambiguous expressions.

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