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TopoBERT: Plug and Play Toponym Recognition Module Harnessing Fine-tuned BERT
Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Yingjie Hu +2
Extracting precise geographical information from textual contents is crucial in a plethora of applications. For example, during hazardous events, a robust and unbiased toponym extr…
Location reference recognition from texts: A survey and comparison
Xuke Hu, Zhiyong Zhou, Hao Li +5
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.…
Are We There Yet? Evaluating State-of-the-Art Neural Network based Geoparsers Using EUPEG as a Benchmarking Platform
Jimin Wang, Yingjie Hu
Geoparsing is an important task in geographic information retrieval. A geoparsing system, known as a geoparser, takes some texts as the input and outputs the recognized place menti…
Geo-Text Data and Data-Driven Geospatial Semantics
Yingjie Hu
Many datasets nowadays contain links between geographic locations and natural language texts. These links can be geotags, such as geotagged tweets or geotagged Wikipedia pages, in…
An empirical study on the names of points of interest and their changes with geographic distance
Yingjie Hu, Krzysztof Janowicz
While Points Of Interest (POIs), such as restaurants, hotels, and barber shops, are part of urban areas irrespective of their specific locations, the names of these POIs often reve…
Geospatial Semantics
Yingjie Hu
Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term semantics refers to the meaning of things, and is in contrast with the term syntactics. Ac…