A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …

Objectives: As an important element of national security, public health not only functions to
provide adequate and timely medical care but also track, monitor, and control disease …

Recognizing references to places in texts is needed in many applications, such as search
engines, location-based social media and document classification. In this paper we present …

The problem of automatic toponym resolution, or computing the mapping from occurrences
of names for places as found in a text to an unambiguous spatial footprint of the location …

The successful execution of location-based and feature-based queries on spatial databases
requires the construction of spatial indexes on the spatial attributes. This is not simple when …

Recognizing spatial language in text documents, termed geoparsing, is useful for many
applications, because together with mapping such language to lat/long values, also known …

This paper presents a real-time news event extraction system developed by the Joint
Research Centre of the European Commission. It is capable of accurately and efficiently …

Most large organizations have dedicated departments that monitor the media to keep up-to-
date with relevant developments and to keep an eye on how they are represented in the …

In Information Extraction (IE), processing of named entities in text has traditionally been seen
as a two-step process comprising a flat text span recognition sub-task and an atomic …

讨论了中文文本的地名解析流程, 提出基于条件随机场和篇章地名关系的地名识别方法,
基于局部模糊匹配的地名标准化方法以及基于认知显著度的地理编码方法 …