[Corpora-List] Seeking for English gazetteer for countries, place names, regions, etc

[Yunqing Xia]

Hi colleagues,
Recognition of locational names is a task included in most NER evaluation 
schemes now. Although corpus learning techniques are powerful indeed, a 
gazetteer is still very necessary for quality recognition. So can anyone 
kindly suggest any link to a gazetteer for countries, place names, regions, 
etc? We hope the languague is English. Thanks a lot in advance.


cheers,
Vincent

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Dr. Yunqing Xia, Vincent
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
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