This survey article describes previous research addressing text‐based document
geocoding, ie the task of predicting the geospatial coordinates of latitude and longitude, that …

Recognizing references to places in texts is needed in many applications, such as search
engines, location-based social media and document classification. In this paper we present …

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 …

The field of Spatial Humanities has advanced substantially in the past years. The
identification and extraction of toponyms and spatial information mentioned in historical text …

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 …

Toponym resolution, or grounding names of places to their actual locations, is an important
problem in analysis of both historical corpora and present-day news and web content …

The purpose of text geolocation is to associate geographic information contained in a
document with a set (or sets) of coordinates, either implicitly by using linguistic features …

Toponym matching, ie pairing strings that represent the same real-world location, is a
fundamental problemfor several practical applications. The current state-of-the-art relies on …

Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial
information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym …

Local place names are frequently used by residents living in a geographic region. Such
place names may not be recorded in existing gazetteers, due to their vernacular nature …