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 …

Inferring and using location metadata to personalize web search

PN Bennett, F Radlinski, RW White… - Proceedings of the 34th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Personalization of search results offers the potential for significant improvements in Web
search. Among the many observable user attributes, approximate user location is …

Adaptive context features for toponym resolution in streaming news

MD Lieberman, H Samet - Proceedings of the 35th international ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
News sources around the world generate constant streams of information, but effective
streaming news retrieval requires an intimate understanding of the geographic content of …

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 …

A survey on geocoding: algorithms and datasets for toponym resolution

Z Zhang, S Bethard - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024 - Springer
Geocoding, the task of converting unstructured text to structured spatial data, has recently
seen progress thanks to a variety of new datasets, evaluation metrics, and machine-learning …

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 …

Improving Toponym Resolution by Predicting Attributes to Constrain Geographical Ontology Entries

Z Zhang, E Laparra, S Bethard - … of the 2024 Conference of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured geospatial data.
We propose a new prompt-based paradigm for geocoding, where the machine learning …