Location reference recognition from texts: A survey and comparison

X Hu, Z Zhou, H Li, Y Hu, F Gu, J Kersten, H Fan… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Unsupervised approaches for textual semantic annotation, a survey

X Liao, Z Zhao - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Semantic annotation is a crucial part of achieving the vision of the Semantic Web and has
long been a research topic among various communities. The most challenging problem in …

[HTML][HTML] How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?

X Hu, Y Sun, J Kersten, Z Zhou, F Klan, H Fan - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

A pragmatic guide to geoparsing evaluation: Toponyms, Named Entity Recognition and pragmatics

M Gritta, MT Pilehvar, N Collier - Language resources and evaluation, 2020 - Springer
Empirical methods in geoparsing have thus far lacked a standard evaluation framework
describing the task, metrics and data used to compare state-of-the-art systems. Evaluation is …

Improving toponym resolution with better candidate generation, transformer-based reranking, and two-stage resolution

Z Zhang, S Bethard - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11315, 2023 - arxiv.org
Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured data that
encodes the geospatial semantics. We propose a new architecture for geocoding, GeoNorm …

Geoparsing: Solved or biased? an evaluation of geographic biases in geoparsing

Z Liu, K Janowicz, L Cai, R Zhu… - AGILE: GIScience …, 2022 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
Geoparsing, the task of extracting toponyms from texts and associating them with
geographic locations, has witnessed remarkable progress over the past years. However …

Deep learning for toponym resolution: Geocoding based on pairs of toponyms

J Fize, L Moncla, B Martins - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Geocoding aims to assign unambiguous locations (ie, geographic coordinates) to place
names (ie, toponyms) referenced within documents (eg, within spreadsheet tables or textual …

Enhancing spatial and textual analysis with EUPEG: An extensible and unified platform for evaluating geoparsers

J Wang, Y Hu - Transactions in GIS, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A rich amount of geographic information exists in unstructured texts, such as web pages,
social media posts, housing advertisements, and historical archives. Geoparsers are useful …

Toponym resolution leveraging lightweight and open-source large language models and geo-knowledge

X Hu, J Kersten, F Klan, SM Farzana - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Toponym resolution is crucial for extracting geographic information from natural language
texts, such as social media posts and news articles. Despite the advancements in current …

Arukikata travelogue dataset with geographic entity mention, coreference, and link annotation

S Higashiyama, H Ouchi, H Teranishi, H Otomo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Geoparsing is a fundamental technique for analyzing geo-entity information in text. We focus
on document-level geoparsing, which considers geographic relatedness among geo-entity …