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 …

Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web

S Vaid, CB Jones, H Joho, M Sanderson - … dos Reis, Brazil, August 22-24 …, 2005 - Springer
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include
geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat …

Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates

M Naaman, YJ Song, A Paepcke… - … of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information
embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection …

[HTML][HTML] Crowdsourcing and the crisis-affected community

R Munro - Information retrieval, 2013 - Springer
This article reports on Mission 4636, a real-time humanitarian crowdsourcing initiative that
processed 80,000 text messages (SMS) sent from within Haiti following the 2010 …

An approach for the classification of urban building structures based on discriminant analysis techniques

S Steiniger, T Lange, D Burghardt… - Transactions in …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Recognition of urban structures is of interest in cartography and urban modelling. While a
broad range of typologies of urban patterns have been published in the last century …

The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet

RS Purves, P Clough, CB Jones… - International journal …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Much of the information stored on the web contains geographical context, but current search
engines treat such context in the same way as all other content. In this paper we describe …

Ontology-based spatial query expansion in information retrieval

G Fu, CB Jones, AI Abdelmoty - On the Move to Meaningful Internet …, 2005 - Springer
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in
Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to …

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 …

Adding geographic scopes to web resources

MJ Silva, B Martins, M Chaves, AP Afonso… - … Environment and Urban …, 2006 - Elsevier
Many web pages are rich in geographic information and primarily relevant to geographically
limited communities. However, existing IR systems only recently began to offer local services …

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 …