Geolm: Empowering language models for geospatially grounded language understanding

Z Li, W Zhou, YY Chiang, M Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14478, 2023 - arxiv.org
Humans subconsciously engage in geospatial reasoning when reading articles. We
recognize place names and their spatial relations in text and mentally associate them with …

Spatial language representation with multi-level geocoding

S Kulkarni, S Jain, MJ Hosseini, J Baldridge… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present a multi-level geocoding model (MLG) that learns to associate texts to geographic
locations. The Earth's surface is represented using space-filling curves that decompose the …

Multi-level gazetteer-free geocoding

S Kulkarni, S Jain, MJ Hosseini… - … Workshop on Spatial …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We present a multi-level geocoding model (MLG) that learns to associate texts to geographic
coordinates. The Earth's surface is represented using space-filling curves that decompose …

K2: A foundation language model for geoscience knowledge understanding and utilization

C Deng, T Zhang, Z He, Q Chen, Y Shi, Y Xu… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in general domains of natural
language processing. In this paper, we bring LLMs to the realm of geoscience with the …

SpaBERT: A pretrained language model from geographic data for geo-entity representation

Z Li, J Kim, YY Chiang, M Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12213, 2022 - arxiv.org
Named geographic entities (geo-entities for short) are the building blocks of many
geographic datasets. Characterizing geo-entities is integral to various application domains …

Geollm: Extracting geospatial knowledge from large language models

R Manvi, S Khanna, G Mai, M Burke, D Lobell… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The application of machine learning (ML) in a range of geospatial tasks is increasingly
common but often relies on globally available covariates such as satellite imagery that can …

Geogalactica: A scientific large language model in geoscience

Z Lin, C Deng, L Zhou, T Zhang, Y Xu, Y Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved huge success for their general knowledge
and ability to solve a wide spectrum of tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Due to …

GPT4GEO: How a Language Model Sees the World's Geography

J Roberts, T Lüddecke, S Das, K Han… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a broad range
of tasks involving question answering and the generation of coherent text and code …

Improving toponym resolution with better candidate generation, transformer-based reranking, and two-stage resolution

Z Zhang, S Bethard - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11315, 2023 - arxiv.org
Geocoding is the task of converting location mentions in text into structured data that
encodes the geospatial semantics. We propose a new architecture for geocoding, GeoNorm …

Deep learning for toponym resolution: Geocoding based on pairs of toponyms

J Fize, L Moncla, B Martins - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Geocoding aims to assign unambiguous locations (ie, geographic coordinates) to place
names (ie, toponyms) referenced within documents (eg, within spreadsheet tables or textual …