GeoTxt: A scalable geoparsing system for unstructured text geolocation

M Karimzadeh, S Pezanowski… - Transactions in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we present GeoTxt, a scalable geoparsing system for the recognition and
geolocation of place names in unstructured text. GeoTxt offers six named entity recognition …

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

Z Zhang, S Bethard - ar** the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus
C Derungs, RS Purves - International Journal of Geographical …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we demonstrate how a large corpus, consisting of about 10 000 articles
describing Swiss alpine landscapes and activities and dating back to 1864, can be used to …

Using machine learning methods for disambiguating place references in textual documents

J Santos, I Anastácio, B Martins - GeoJournal, 2015 - Springer
This paper presents a machine learning method for disambiguating place references in text.
Solving this task can have important applications in the digital humanities and computational …

From space to place: Place-based explorations of text

RS Purves, C Derungs - International Journal of Humanities and …, 2015 - euppublishing.com
New data sources, for example in the form of geotagged image libraries and digitised
archives of historical text documents, provide us with new opportunities for exploring how …

Supporting rapid processing and interactive map-based exploration of streaming news

MD Lieberman, H Samet - … of the 20th International Conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The database architecture and system design of NewsStand, a database system that
analyzes and displays streaming news using a map user interface, is described. Special …

Learning to rank for geographic information retrieval

B Martins, P Calado - proceedings of the 6th workshop on geographic …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The task of Learning to Rank is currently getting increasing attention, providind a sound
methodology for combining different sources of evidence. The goal is to design and apply …