Detecting geospatial location descriptions in natural language text

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Detecting geospatial location descriptions in natural language text

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Massey University

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Massey Research Online

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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 that describe location through a spatial relationship to a reference object (e.g. the house beside the Waikato River). Often complex, multi-word phrases are employed (e.g. the road and railway cross at right angles; the road in line with the canal) where spatial relationships are communicated with various parts of sp...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2022

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Stock K / Jones CB / Russell S / Radke M / Das P / Aflaki N

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/70997

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Geospatial language / natural language processing / spatial role labelling / geospatial parsing / spatial relations / locative expressions / georeferencing / geographic information retrieval

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