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 …

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 …

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 …

We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information
embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …