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20192026
most citedA Review of Location Encoding for GeoAI: Methods and Applications

170 citations · 452 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CY2026

Geographic Bias and Diversity in AI Evaluation

Zilong Liu, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai +2

Among the many challenges hindering the responsible development and deployment of AI, arguably none has faced more intense scrutiny than bias in its various forms. This underscores…

cs.AI2026

Geography According to ChatGPT -- How Generative AI Represents and Reasons about Geography

Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, Rui Zhu +4

Understanding how AI will represent and reason about geography should be a key concern for all of us, as the broader public increasingly interacts with spaces and places through th…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Geospatial Knowledge Graphs

Rui Zhu

Geospatial knowledge graphs have emerged as a novel paradigm for representing and reasoning over geospatial information. In this framework, entities such as places, people, events,…

cs.AI2023★ 66 cited

On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

Gengchen Mai, Weiming Huang, Jin Sun +11

Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks by…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

EVKG: An Interlinked and Interoperable Electric Vehicle Knowledge Graph for Smart Transportation System

Yanlin Qi, Gengchen Mai, Rui Zhu +1

Over the past decade, the electric vehicle industry has experienced unprecedented growth and diversification, resulting in a complex ecosystem. To effectively manage this multiface…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Towards General-Purpose Representation Learning of Polygonal Geometries

Gengchen Mai, Chiyu Jiang, Weiwei Sun +6

Neural network representation learning for spatial data is a common need for geographic artificial intelligence (GeoAI) problems. In recent years, many advancements have been made…

cs.AI2021

Narrative Cartography with Knowledge Graphs

Gengchen Mai, Weiming Huang, Ling Cai +2

Narrative cartography is a discipline which studies the interwoven nature of stories and maps. However, conventional geovisualization techniques of narratives often encounter sever…

cs.AI2021★ 13 cited

Time in a Box: Advancing Knowledge Graph Completion with Temporal Scopes

Ling Cai, Krzysztof Janowic, Bo Yan +2

Almost all statements in knowledge bases have a temporal scope during which they are valid. Hence, knowledge base completion (KBC) on temporal knowledge bases (TKB), where each sta…

cs.LG2021★ 170 cited

A Review of Location Encoding for GeoAI: Methods and Applications

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Yingjie Hu +5

A common need for artificial intelligence models in the broader geoscience is to represent and encode various types of spatial data, such as points (e.g., points of interest), poly…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Geographic Question Answering: Challenges, Uniqueness, Classification, and Future Directions

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Rui Zhu +2

As an important part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Question Answering (QA) aims at generating answers to questions phrased in natural language. While there has been substantial…

cs.DB2020★ 87 cited

SE-KGE: A Location-Aware Knowledge Graph Embedding Model for Geographic Question Answering and Spatial Semantic Lifting

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Ling Cai +5

Learning knowledge graph (KG) embeddings is an emerging technique for a variety of downstream tasks such as summarization, link prediction, information retrieval, and question answ…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

Semantically-Enriched Search Engine for Geoportals: A Case Study with ArcGIS Online

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Sathya Prasad +5

Many geoportals such as ArcGIS Online are established with the goal of improving geospatial data reusability and achieving intelligent knowledge discovery. However, according to pr…

cs.CV2020★ 15 cited

Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Spatial Feature Distributions using Grid Cells

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan +3

Unsupervised text encoding models have recently fueled substantial progress in NLP. The key idea is to use neural networks to convert words in texts to vector space representations…

cs.LG2019★ 79 cited

TransGCN:Coupling Transformation Assumptions with Graph Convolutional Networks for Link Prediction

Ling Cai, Bo Yan, Gengchen Mai +2

Link prediction is an important and frequently studied task that contributes to an understanding of the structure of knowledge graphs (KGs) in statistical relational learning. Insp…

cs.LG2019★ 10 cited

Contextual Graph Attention for Answering Logical Queries over Incomplete Knowledge Graphs

Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan +3

Recently, several studies have explored methods for using KG embedding to answer logical queries. These approaches either treat embedding learning and query answering as two separa…