Geographical data can be obtained by converting place names from free-format text into
geographical coordinates. The ability to geo-locate events in textual reports represents a …

References to geographic locations are common in text data sources including social media
and web pages. They take different forms from simple place names to relative expressions …

In this article, we present the GeoCorpora corpus building framework and software tools as
well as a geo-annotated Twitter corpus built with these tools to foster research and …

ABSTRACT SensePlace3 (SP3) is a geovisual analytics framework and web application that
supports overview+ detail analysis of social media, focusing on extracting meaningful …

Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term
semantics refers to the meaning of things, and is in contrast with the term syntactics …

In this paper, we point out to the shortcomings of precision and recall in evaluating the
performance of geoparsing algorithms. We propose separate processes for evaluating …

Cities have been studied as geo-social systems embedded with intricate and complicated
spatial and social networks (eg, transportation, telecommunication, and internet). In addition …

Much previous work on geoparsing has focused on identifying and resolving individual
toponyms in text like Adrano, S. Maria di Licodia or Catania. However, geographical …

This paper introduces a gold-standard corpus extracted from manually labeled tweets
concerning urban issues. The main contribution is to provide a labeled tweet dataset which …

Abstract The Natural Language Processing task we focus on in this thesis is Geoparsing.
Geoparsing is the process of extraction and grounding of toponyms (place names). Consider …