This survey article describes previous research addressing text‐based document
geocoding, ie the task of predicting the geospatial coordinates of latitude and longitude, that …

Everyday place descriptions provide a rich source of knowledge about places and their
relative locations. This research proposes a place graph model for modelling this spatial …

We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand
ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England …

Discourse may contain both named and nominal entities. Most common nouns or nominal
mentions in natural language do not have a single, simple meaning but rather a number of …

This PhD thesis is part of the research project PERDIDO, which aims at extracting and
retrieving displacements from textual documents. This work was conducted in collaboration …

Our project involves building a platform able to retrieve, map and analyze the occurrences of
place names in fictional novels published between 1800 and 1914 and whose action occurs …

People often use qualitative relations to describe locations or directional information,
especially in written communication, such as 'the restaurant is located at the southeast …

The textual geographical information is frequently organized around spatial named entities.
Such entities have intrinsic ambiguities and Named Entity Recognition and Classification …

Fictive motion (eg 'The highway runs along the coast') is a pervasive phenomenon in
language that can imply both a static and a moving observer. In a corpus of alpine …

Named entity classification in the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences et des
métiers par une société de gens de lettres (1751-1772). We present a method for improving …