Location reference recognition from texts: A survey and comparison
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 …
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …
Geographic information retrieval: Progress and challenges in spatial search of text
Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …
Twitterstand: news in tweets
J Sankaranarayanan, H Samet, BE Teitler… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Twitter is an electronic medium that allows a large user populace to communicate with each
other simultaneously. Inherent to Twitter is an asymmetrical relationship between friends …
other simultaneously. Inherent to Twitter is an asymmetrical relationship between friends …
[PDF][PDF] Simple supervised document geolocation with geodesic grids
B Wing, J Baldridge - Proceedings of the 49th annual meeting of …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
We investigate automatic geolocation (ie identification of the location, expressed as
latitude/longitude coordinates) of documents. Geolocation can be an effective means of …
latitude/longitude coordinates) of documents. Geolocation can be an effective means of …
Non-parametric scan statistics for event detection and forecasting in heterogeneous social media graphs
Event detection in social media is an important but challenging problem. Most existing
approaches are based on burst detection, topic modeling, or clustering techniques, which …
approaches are based on burst detection, topic modeling, or clustering techniques, which …
Geotagging with local lexicons to build indexes for textually-specified spatial data
MD Lieberman, H Samet… - 2010 IEEE 26th …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …
requires the construction of spatial indexes on the spatial attributes. This is not simple when …
From information to knowledge: harvesting entities and relationships from web sources
G Weikum, M Theobald - Proceedings of the twenty-ninth ACM SIGMOD …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive
semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as …
semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as …
Road traffic congestion monitoring in social media with hinge-loss Markov random fields
Real-time road traffic congestion monitoring is an important and challenging problem. Most
existing monitoring approaches require the deployment of infrastructure sensors or large …
existing monitoring approaches require the deployment of infrastructure sensors or large …
Detecting geographical references in the form of place names and associated spatial natural language
JL Leidner, MD Lieberman - Sigspatial Special, 2011 - dl.acm.org
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 …
applications, because together with mapping such language to lat/long values, also known …
[HTML][HTML] How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?
Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial
information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym …
information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym …