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 …

Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important
location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many …

To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that
characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport …

Place names embedded in online natural language text present a useful source of
geographic information. Despite this, many methods for the extraction of place names from …

Social media messages, such as tweets, are frequently used by people during natural
disasters to share real‐time information and to report incidents. Within these messages …

The concept of “human as sensors” defines a new sensing model, in which humans act as
sensors by contributing their observations, perceptions, and sensations. This is crucial for …

Cognitive regions and places are notoriously difficult to represent in geographic information
science and systems. The exact delineation of cognitive regions is challenging insofar as …

Humans subconsciously engage in geospatial reasoning when reading articles. We
recognize place names and their spatial relations in text and mentally associate them with …

Twitter announced on 18 June 2019 that it would remove the precise geotagging feature in
tweets. In addition to protecting the location privacy of users, this change also affects human …