Location reference recognition from texts: A survey and comparison

X Hu, Z Zhou, H Li, Y Hu, F Gu, J Kersten, H Fan… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Migratable urban street scene sensing method based on vision language pre-trained model

Y Zhang, F Zhang, N Chen - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a geographically reproducible approach to urban scene sensing based on
large-scale pre-trained models. With the rise of GeoAI research, many high-quality urban …

BB-GeoGPT: A framework for learning a large language model for geographic information science

Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z He, J Li, G Mai, J Lin, C Wei… - Information Processing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities across diverse tasks in
natural language processing. Nevertheless, challenges arise such as large model …

GazPNE2: A general place name extractor for microblogs fusing gazetteers and pretrained transformer models

X Hu, Z Zhou, Y Sun, J Kersten, F Klan… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of “human as sensors” defines a new sensing model, in which humans act as
sensors by contributing their observations, perceptions, and sensations. This is crucial for …

[HTML][HTML] IDRISI-RE: A generalizable dataset with benchmarks for location mention recognition on disaster tweets

R Suwaileh, T Elsayed, M Imran - Information Processing & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
While utilizing Twitter data for crisis management is of interest to different response
authorities, a critical challenge that hinders the utilization of such data is the scarcity of …

[Retracted] Environmental and Geographical (EG) Image Classification Using FLIM and CNN Algorithms

P Ajay, B Nagaraj, R Huang… - Contrast Media & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent machines have grown in importance in recent years in object recognition in terms
of their ability to envision, comprehend, and reach decisions. There are a lot of complicated …

[HTML][HTML] How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?

X Hu, Y Sun, J Kersten, Z Zhou, F Klan, H Fan - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-view geolocalization and disaster map** with street-view and VHR satellite imagery: A case study of Hurricane IAN

H Li, F Deuser, W Yin, X Luo, P Walther, G Mai… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Nature disasters play a key role in sha** human-urban infrastructure interactions. Effective
and efficient response to natural disasters is essential for building resilience and sustainable …

ChineseTR: A weakly supervised toponym recognition architecture based on automatic training data generator and deep neural network

Q Qiu, Z **e, S Wang, Y Zhu, H Lv, K Sun - Transactions in GIS, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Toponym recognition is used to extract toponyms from natural language texts, which is a
fundamental task of ubiquitous geographic information applications. Existing toponym …

Toponym resolution leveraging lightweight and open-source large language models and geo-knowledge

X Hu, J Kersten, F Klan, SM Farzana - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Toponym resolution is crucial for extracting geographic information from natural language
texts, such as social media posts and news articles. Despite the advancements in current …