The field of spatial epidemiology has evolved rapidly in the past 2 decades. This study
serves as a brief introduction to spatial epidemiology and the use of geographic information …

The widespread availability of powerful geocoding tools in commercial GIS software and the
interest in spatial analysis at the individual level have made address geocoding a widely …

Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important
location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many …

User interaction in social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, is increasingly becoming
a source of useful information on daily events. The online monitoring of short messages …

News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast
to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western …

Pre-trained models (PTMs) have become a fundamental backbone for downstream tasks in
natural language processing and computer vision. Despite initial gains that were obtained …

Public health datasets increasingly use geographic identifiers such as an individual's
address. Geocoding these addresses often provides new insights since it becomes possible …

This survey article describes previous research addressing text‐based document
geocoding, ie the task of predicting the geospatial coordinates of latitude and longitude, that …

Background Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and
access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings …

Abstract Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used to measure retail food
environments. However the methods used are hetrogeneous, limiting collation and …