On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature

CW Davison, C Rahbek… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper)

G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, Y Hu, N Lao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

Named entity recognition and classification on historical documents: A survey

M Ehrmann, A Hamdi, EL Pontes, M Romanello… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented amount of historical documents is
available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a …

Named entity recognition and classification in historical documents: A survey

M Ehrmann, A Hamdi, EL Pontes, M Romanello… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented number of historical documents are
available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a …

NeuroTPR: A neuro‐net toponym recognition model for extracting locations from social media messages

J Wang, Y Hu, K Joseph - Transactions in GIS, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Social media messages, such as tweets, are frequently used by people during natural
disasters to share real‐time information and to report incidents. Within these messages …

EVKG: An interlinked and interoperable electric vehicle knowledge graph for smart transportation system

Y Qi, G Mai, R Zhu, M Zhang - Transactions in GIS, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, the electric vehicle (EV) industry has experienced unprecedented
growth and diversification, resulting in a complex ecosystem. To effectively manage this …

ensemble named entity recognition (ner): evaluating ner Tools in the identification of Place names in historical corpora

M Won, P Murrieta-Flores, B Martins - Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The field of Spatial Humanities has advanced substantially in the past years. The
identification and extraction of toponyms and spatial information mentioned in historical text …

Chinese toponym recognition with variant neural structures from social media messages based on BERT methods

K Ma, YJ Tan, Z Xie, Q Qiu, S Chen - Journal of Geographical Systems, 2022 - Springer
Many natural language tasks related to geographic information retrieval (GIR) require
toponym recognition, and identifying Chinese toponyms from social media messages to …

Geo‐text data and data‐driven geospatial semantics

Y Hu - Geography Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many datasets nowadays contain links between geographic locations and natural language
texts. These links can be geotags, such as geotagged tweets or geotagged Wikipedia …