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From Location Phrases to Geographic Entities: Task-Adapted Retrieval for People Search

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

People search must map free-form location phrases to geographic entities used as structured retrieval filters. Lexical standardizers handle canonical names well but are brittle to aliases, misspellings, metropolitan expressions, and same-name ambiguity. We formulate this task as graded, set-valued entity retrieval over a fixed ontology. We identify three coupled design requirements: distinguishing identity-preserving variation from knowledge-dependent aliases, controlling false negatives among valid same-name entities, and separating stable transformations from mutable entity knowledge. We rea

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