Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2026, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (9): 131-137.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2026.0919

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Research on the production technology of multi-source foreign language geographical names

Fan Jing, Chen Xingyu   

  1. Troops 61363, Xi'an 710054, China
  • Received:2025-11-24 Published:2026-10-09

Abstract: [Purposes]Countries around the world attach great importance to the modernization of geographical name information management.At present,China also needs to expand the reserve of bilingual geographical name information and establish a global coverage bilingual geographical name database.[Methods]Based on multi-source foreign language geographical name data,this paper designs a geographical name production technical process based on multi-source foreign language geographical name materials.It conducts research and discussion on key links in the technical process,including data collection and analysis,data preprocessing,transliteration and free translation of foreign language geographical names,integration of multi-source geographical names,and revision of derived geographical names.[Findings]A standardized and engineered production process for multi-source foreign language geographical names has been initially established.[Conclusions]To further improve the efficiency of geographical name production and the quality of geographical name results,this paper focuses on analyzing the current technical shortcomings in key links such as geographical name translation and multi-source data integration,providing improvement ideas for the large-scale production of multi-source foreign language geographical names.

Key words: multi-source, foreign place names, transliteration and translation, integration, derivation

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