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 …

[PDF][PDF] Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning.

G Mai, Y Hu, S Gao, L Cai, B Martins, J Scholz… - Trans …, 2022 - geography.wisc.edu
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be roughly divided into two branches: Symbolic
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionist Artificial Intelligence (or so-called Subsymbolic AI) …

On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geoai (vision paper)

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

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

Z Zhang, S Bethard - ar** geoparsers with generic resources
T Leppämäki, T Toivonen, T Hiippala - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Geoparsers aim to find place names in unstructured texts and locate them geographically.
This process produces georeferenced data usable for spatial analyses or visualisations …

A Hierarchy-Aware Geocoding Model Based on Cross-Attention within the Seq2Seq Framework

L Liang, Y Chang, Y Quan, C Wang - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Geocoding converts unstructured geographic text into structured spatial data, which is
crucial in fields such as urban planning, social media spatial analysis, and emergency …