Analytics of location-based big data for smart cities: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions

H Huang, XA Yao, JM Krisp, B Jiang - Computers, Environment and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing ubiquity of location/activity sensing technologies and location-based services
(LBS) has led to a large volume and variety of location-based big data (LocBigData), such …

[PDF][PDF] Natural language processing for urban research: A systematic review

M Cai - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Natural language processing (NLP) has shown potential as a promising tool to exploit under-
utilized urban data sources. This paper presents a systematic review of urban studies …

Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages

Y Hu, G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, N Lao… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Transformer based named entity recognition for place name extraction from unstructured text

C Berragan, A Singleton, A Calafiore… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Place names embedded in online natural language text present a useful source of
geographic information. Despite this, many methods for the extraction of place names from …

NeuroTPR: A neuro‐net toponym recognition model for extracting locations from social media messages

J Wang, Y Hu, K Joseph - Transactions in GIS, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Social media messages, such as tweets, are frequently used by people during natural
disasters to share real‐time information and to report incidents. Within these messages …

Do landscape amenities impact private housing rental prices? A hierarchical hedonic modeling approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online …

S Su, S He, C Sun, H Zhang, L Hu, M Kang - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Real estate premium associated with landscape amenities is a well-studied topic with a
primary focus on housing prices. Presumably, the willingness-to-pay for landscape …

Geospatial data ontology: the semantic foundation of geospatial data integration and sharing

K Sun, Y Zhu, P Pan, Z Hou, D Wang, W Li, J Song - Big Earth Data, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Effective integration and wide sharing of geospatial data is an important and basic premise
to facilitate the research and applications of geographic information science. However, the …

Geographic named entity recognition by employing natural language processing and an improved bert model

L Tao, Z **e, D Xu, K Ma, Q Qiu, S Pan… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Toponym recognition, or the challenge of detecting place names that have a similar referent,
is involved in a number of activities connected to geographical information retrieval and …

Chinese toponym recognition with variant neural structures from social media messages based on BERT methods

K Ma, YJ Tan, Z **e, Q Qiu, S Chen - Journal of Geographical Systems, 2022 - Springer
Many natural language tasks related to geographic information retrieval (GIR) require
toponym recognition, and identifying Chinese toponyms from social media messages to …

ChineseTR: A weakly supervised toponym recognition architecture based on automatic training data generator and deep neural network

Q Qiu, Z **e, S Wang, Y Zhu, H Lv, K Sun - Transactions in GIS, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Toponym recognition is used to extract toponyms from natural language texts, which is a
fundamental task of ubiquitous geographic information applications. Existing toponym …