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 …
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 …
J Wang, Y Hu, K Joseph - Transactions in GIS, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Y Hu, RQ Wang - Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
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 …
In this article we present GeoTxt, a scalable geoparsing system for the recognition and geolocation of place names in unstructured text. GeoTxt offers six named entity recognition …
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 …