5 papers
FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Jiyoon Pyo, Yuankun Jiao, Dongwon Jung +11
Cartographic reasoning is the skill of interpreting geographic relationships by aligning legends, map scales, compass directions, map texts, and geometries across one or more map i…
Detecting Legend Items on Historical Maps Using GPT-4o with In-Context Learning
Sofia Kirsanova, Yao-Yi Chiang, Weiwei Duan
Historical map legends are critical for interpreting cartographic symbols. However, their inconsistent layouts and unstructured formats make automatic extraction challenging. Prior…
Augmenting Human-Centered Racial Covenant Detection and Georeferencing with Plug-and-Play NLP Pipelines
Jiyoon Pyo, Yuankun Jiao, Yao-Yi Chiang +1
Though no longer legally enforceable, racial covenants in twentieth-century property deeds continue to shape spatial and socioeconomic inequalities. Understanding this legacy requi…
MiTREE: Multi-input Transformer Ecoregion Encoder for Species Distribution Modelling
Theresa Chen, Yao-Yi Chiang
Climate change poses an extreme threat to biodiversity, making it imperative to efficiently model the geographical range of different species. The availability of large-scale remot…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Generating Labeled Mineral Site Record Linkage Data
Jiyoon Pyo, Yao-Yi Chiang
Record linkage integrates diverse data sources by identifying records that refer to the same entity. In the context of mineral site records, accurate record linkage is crucial for…