Geoparsing biodiversity heritage library collections: A preliminary exploration [PDF]
iConference 2019 Proceedings, 2019 A short pilot study was conducted to provide recommendations on methods and workflows for extracting geographic references from the text of Biodiversity Heritage Library collections and disambiguating these references. An initial survey of the literature was conducted, and a variety of possible techniques and software were subsequently explored for ...
Stahlman, Gretchen Renee +1 more
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Mining location information from life- and earth-sciences studies to facilitate knowledge discovery
, 2018 Location information in published studies represents an untapped resource for literature discovery, applicable to a range of domains. The ability to easily discover scientific articles from specific places, nearby locales, or similar (but geographically
Jason W. Karl
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A Vector Semantics Approach to the Geoparsing Disambiguation Task for Texts in Spanish
Kalpa Publications in Computing, 2019 Nowadays, online news sources generate continuous streams of information that includes references to real locations. Linking these locations to coordinates in a map usually requires two steps involving the named entity: extraction and disambiguation. In past years, efforts have been devoted mainly to the first task.
Filomeno Alcántara +2 more
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Perceptions of Edinburgh: Capturing neighbourhood characteristics by clustering geoparsed local news [PDF]
Information Processing & ManagementPreprint - paper under ...
Andreas Grivas +9 more
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Qualitative Spatial Reasoning over Questions (Short Paper)
, 2022 Although geospatial question answering systems have received increasing attention in recent years, existing prototype systems struggle to properly answer qualitative spatial questions. In this work, we propose a unique framework for answering qualitative
Griffin, Amy +4 more
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How Do People Describe Locations During a Natural Disaster: An Analysis of Tweets from Hurricane Harvey [PDF]
, 2020 Social media platforms, such as Twitter, have been increasingly used by people during natural disasters to share information and request for help. Hurricane Harvey was a category 4 hurricane that devastated Houston, Texas, USA in August 2017 and caused ...
Wang, Jimin, Hu, Yingjie
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Digging into Data white paper : Trading Consequences [PDF]
, 2015 Scholars interested in nineteenth century global economic history face a voluminous historical record. Conventional approaches to primary source research on the economic and environmental implications of globalised commodity flows typically restrict ...
Osborne, Nicola +10 more
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Geographical and linguistic perspectives on developing geoparsers with generic resources
International Journal of Geographical Information ScienceGeoparsers aim to find place names in unstructured texts and locate them geographically. This process produces georeferenced data usable for spatial analyses or visualisations. Much geoparsing research and development has thus far focused on the English language, yet languages are not alike.
Tatu Leppämäki +2 more
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Text-analysis reveals taxonomic and geographic disparities in animal pollination literature
, 2019 Frequency of animal genera in English, primary research abstracts returned by Scopus with the term "pollinat*".We used the named entity recognition algorithms Taxonfinder and Neti Neti in the R package 'taxize' to extract taxonomic records from "pollinat*
Joseph Millard (6882404) +2 more
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Towards a Scalable Geoparsing Approach for the Web. [PDF]
The ongoing surge in web data generation and storage, coupled with embedded geographic information, holds immense potential for enhancing search applications across diverse domains. However, extracting geographic information for further enhancement of web search remains inadequately explored.
Farzana, Sheikh Mastura, Hecking, Tobias
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