Geographic information retrieval: Progress and challenges in spatial search of text

RS Purves, P Clough, CB Jones… - … and Trends® in …, 2018 - nowpublishers.com
Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

L ocation B ased S ocial N etworks–Definition, Current State of the Art and Research Agenda

O Roick, S Heuser - Transactions in GIS, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The growing penetration of GPS equipped smartphones allowing users to constantly share
geographic information on their current whereabouts has led the way to an augmentation of …

[LIVRE][B] Semantic similarity from natural language and ontology analysis

S Harispe, S Ranwez, J Montmain - 2022 - books.google.com
Artificial Intelligence federates numerous scientific fields in the aim of develo** machines
able to assist human operators performing complex treatments---most of which demand high …

From itdl to place2vec: Reasoning about place type similarity and relatedness by learning embeddings from augmented spatial contexts

B Yan, K Janowicz, G Mai, S Gao - Proceedings of the 25th ACM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Understanding, representing, and reasoning about Points Of Interest (POI) types such as
Auto Repair, Body Shop, Gas Stations, or Planetarium, is a key aspect of geographic …

Geographic knowledge extraction and semantic similarity in OpenStreetMap

A Ballatore, M Bertolotto, DC Wilson - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2013 - Springer
In recent years, a web phenomenon known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
has produced large crowdsourced geographic data sets. OpenStreetMap (OSM), the leading …

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 …

Geospatial semantics and linked spatiotemporal data–Past, present, and future

K Janowicz, S Scheider, T Pehle, G Hart - Semantic Web, 2012 - content.iospress.com
Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

Observation‐driven geo‐ontology engineering

K Janowicz - Transactions in GIS, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Big Data, Linked Data, Smart Dust, Digital Earth, and e‐Science are just some of
the names for research trends that surfaced over the last years. While all of them address …

An overview of word and sense similarity

R Navigli, F Martelli - Natural Language Engineering, 2019 - cambridge.org
Over the last two decades, determining the similarity between words as well as between
their meanings, that is, word senses, has been proven to be of vital importance in the field of …

Semantic measures for the comparison of units of language, concepts or instances from text and knowledge base analysis

S Harispe, S Ranwez, S Janaqi, J Montmain - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
Semantic measures are widely used today to estimate the strength of the semantic
relationship between elements of various types: units of language (eg, words, sentences …