We investigate automatic geolocation (ie identification of the location, expressed as
latitude/longitude coordinates) of documents. Geolocation can be an effective means of …

Exploratory studies have demonstrated the benefits of implementing Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) technology in literary and cultural-historical research. These studies have …

Geotagging is the process of recognizing textual references to geographic locations, known
as toponyms, and resolving these references by assigning each lat/long values. Typical …

Após o encontro do Segundo HAREM realizado no dia 7 de Setembro de 2008, em Aveiro,
demos início ao processo de edição da presente obra, que documenta o Segundo HAREM …

This paper discusses a system that extracts and displays temporal and geospatial entities in
text. The first task involves identification of all events in a document followed by identification …

This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual
documents. Geographic information retrieval is a rapidly emerging subject, a trend fostered …

Geographical Information Access (GeoIA) can be defined as a way of retrieving information
from textual collections that includes the automatic analysis and interpretation of the …

In GIR, as a research field branching from IR, initial evaluation initiatives were unsurprisingly
inspired from established IR evaluation models. The GeoCLEF evaluation [6], which I will …

To facilitate users to access news quickly and comprehensively, we design a news search
and browsing system named GeoVisNews, in which the news elements of …

Existing textual information is knowledge-rich and grows exponentially in time. To be useful
to systems performing some type of intelligent processing, this knowledge needs to be …