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Re:Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter by chippy on Thursday September 11, 2014 @01:07PM (#8303731)
This is similar to Yahoo's old Placemaker and a few other services out there. Extracting locations is quite tricky.

I tried "St Francis near the statue of liberty. Going to new york to see the queen." but it gave a zero results result.

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Re:Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter by s3f0 on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:22PM (#8326529)
Try this: St Francis near the Statue of Liberty. Going to New York to see the queen. You have use small caps, we are sensitive to small caps :)
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