Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit
Short Abstract This paper explores cognitive place associations; conceptualised as a place‐based mental model that derives subconscious links between geographic locations. Utilising a large corpus of online discussion data from the social media website Reddit, we experiment on the extraction of such geographic knowledge from unstructured text.
Cillian Berragan +3 more
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Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis: Current Developments in Spatial Humanities Research [PDF]
The spatial humanities constitute a rapidly developing research field that has the potential to create a step-change in the ways in which the humanities deal with geography and geographical information. As yet, however, research in the spatial humanities is only just beginning to deliver the applied contributions to knowledge that will prove its ...
Gregory, Ian +3 more
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Georeferencing Wikipedia pages using language models from Flickr [PDF]
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De Rouck, Chris +3 more
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GeoCorpora: building a corpus to test and train microblog geoparsers
In this article, we present the GeoCorpora corpus building framework and software tools as well as a geo-annotated Twitter corpus built with these tools to foster research and development in the areas of microblog/Twitter geoparsing and geographic information retrieval.
Jan Oliver Wallgrün +3 more
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Determine the User Country of a Tweet [PDF]
In the widely used message platform Twitter, about 2% of the tweets contains the geographical location through exact GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude). Knowing the location of a tweet is useful for many data analytics questions.
Broek, Tijs van den +4 more
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Exploring Historical Links between Scotland and India using Geoparsing
A significant amount of spatial information can be derived from unstructured datasets available in web pages, e-books, and digital archives. Geoparsing is one such concept that is very useful in extracting spatial data from any unstructured text source.
Tyagi, Chandramauli, Gittings, Bruce M.
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User Spatial Content in Social Research: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges
The availability of user-generated spatial data (user spatial content, USC) has transformed social science research, enabling the real-time, large-scale exploration of socio-spatial dynamics.
Ciro Clemente De Falco
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Geographic information retrieval in a mobile environment: evaluating the needs of mobile individuals [PDF]
This paper describes research that aims to define the information needs of mobile individuals, to implement a mobile information system that can satisfy those needs, and finally to evaluate the performance of that system with end-users. First a review of
A. Edwardes +42 more
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Geoparsing historical and contemporary literary text set in the City of Edinburgh [PDF]
While a reasonable amount of work has gone into automatically geoparsing text at the city or higher levels of granularity for different types of texts in different domains, there is relatively little research on geoparsing fine-grained locations such as buildings, green spaces and street names in text.
Beatrice Alex +3 more
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Luonnonvaratiedon hyödyntäminen politiikan ja päätöksenteon tukena : Aineistot, tiedontuotanto, tiedon löydettävyys ja yhteinen palvelumalli [PDF]
Esiselvitys kuuluu sektoritutkimuksen neuvottelukunnan tutkimusagendojen kestävän kehityksen aihepiiriin teemalla ‘Luonnonvaratiedon hyödyntäminen politiikan ja päätöksenteon tukena’.
Forsström, Pirjo-Leena +10 more
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