Geo-analytical question-answering with GIS

S Scheider, E Nyamsuren, H Kruiger… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Question Answering (QA), the process of computing valid answers to questions formulated
in natural language, has recently gained attention in both industry and academia …

Putting geographical information science in place–towards theories of platial information and platial information systems

FB Mocnik - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

Ms marco: Benchmarking ranking models in the large-data regime

N Craswell, B Mitra, E Yilmaz, D Campos… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Evaluation efforts such as TREC, CLEF, NTCIR and FIRE, alongside public leaderboard
such as MS MARCO, are intended to encourage research and track our progress …

Geographic question answering: challenges, uniqueness, classification, and future directions

G Mai, K Janowicz, R Zhu, L Cai… - AGILE: GIScience …, 2021 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
As an important part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Question Answering (QA) aims at
generating answers to questions phrased in natural language. While there has been …

Template-based question answering over linked geospatial data

D Punjani, K Singh, A Both, M Koubarakis… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Large amounts of geospatial data have been made available recently on the linked open
data cloud and on the portals of many national cartographic agencies (eg, OpenStreetMap …

[HTML][HTML] The question answering system geoqa2 and a new benchmark for its evaluation

SA Kefalidis, D Punjani, E Tsalapati, K Plas… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present the question answering engine GeoQA2 which is able to answer geospatial
questions over the union of knowledge graphs YAGO2 and YAGO2geo. We also present the …

Translating place-related questions to GeoSPARQL queries

E Hamzei, M Tomko, S Winter - … of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Many place-related questions can only be answered by complex spatial reasoning, a task
poorly supported by factoid question retrieval. Such reasoning using combinations of spatial …

Benchmarking Geospatial Question Answering Engines Using the Dataset GeoQuestions1089

SA Kefalidis, D Punjani, E Tsalapati, K Plas… - International Semantic …, 2023 - Springer
We present the dataset GeoQuestions1089 for benchmarking geospatial question
answering engines. GeoQuestions1089 is the largest such dataset available presently and it …

Extracting interrogative intents and concepts from geo-analytic questions

H Xu, E Hamzei, E Nyamsuren… - AGILE …, 2020 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
Understanding syntactic and semantic structure of geographic questions is a necessary step
towards true geographic question-answering (GeoQA) machines. The empirical basis for the …

Analyzing geographic questions using embedding-based topic modeling

J Yang, H Jang, K Yu - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, open-domain question-answering systems have achieved tremendous progress
because of developments in large language models (LLMs), and have successfully been …