It is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since we wrote our guest editorial for IJGIS
(Sui and Goodchild). Using the nascent evidence that emerged in the late 1990s, we …

This paper investigates research using VGI and geo-social media in the disaster
management context. Relying on the method of systematic mapping, it develops a …

Crisis informatics researchers have taken great interest in methods to identify information
relevant to crisis events posted by digital bystanders on social media. This work codifies the …

The purpose of the shared task 2 at the Challenges and Applications of Automated
Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE) 2023 workshop was to test the abilities …

Social media, driven by the explosive uptake of mobile computing, has caused a systematic
shift in the structure of personal communications at a global scale [1, 2]. People around the …

Geo-folksonomies link social web users to geographic places through the tags users choose
to label the places with. These tags can be a valuable source of information about the user's …

Detecting event location is a key aspect of event extraction from news and social media.
However, this task has not received strong attention recently in comparison to event …

The method method presented in this paper uses a BERT model for classifying location
mentions in event reporting news texts into two classes: a place of an event, called main …

The ever-increasing stream of Web and mobile applications addressing geospatial data
creation has been producing a large number of user-contributed geospatial datasets. This …

The crowdsourcing of geographic information addresses the collection of geospatial data
contributed by non-expert users and the aggregation of these data into meaningful …