Association for Information Systems AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) CONF-IRM 2014 Proceedings International Conference on Information Resources Management (CONF-IRM) 2014 An Algorithm to Extract Jamaican Geographic Locations from News Articles – Using NLP Techniques Jean-Mark Wright Te University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, jeanmark.wright@gmail.com Gunjan Mansingh Te University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, gunjan.mansingh@uwimona.edu.jm Follow this and additional works at: htp://aisel.aisnet.org/confrm2014 Tis material is brought to you by the International Conference on Information Resources Management (CONF-IRM) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in CONF-IRM 2014 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact elibrary@aisnet.org. Recommended Citation Wright, Jean-Mark and Mansingh, Gunjan, "An Algorithm to Extract Jamaican Geographic Locations from News Articles – Using NLP Techniques" (2014). CONF-IRM 2014 Proceedings. 24. htp://aisel.aisnet.org/confrm2014/24