Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs

Elise Acheson; Flurina M. Wartmann; Ross S. Purves

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_2

Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs

Elise Acheson^*, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves

^*Corresponding author for this work

Geology and Geophysics

University of Zurich

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Abstract

Explicitly linking text documents to geographical space is an important processing step for applications such as map visualization, spatial querying, and placename disambiguation. In this work, we present a proof-of-concept processing pipeline to generate spatial footprints for a spatially-rich, manually-annotated corpus of hiking blogs. We present preliminary results obtained by exploiting the spatially-focused nature of our input data and the rich placename resources at our disposal. Future work will fully automate the pipeline and systematically examine the influence of processing decisions on the footprints and downstream tasks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-7
Number of pages	3
Journal	Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Issue number	198809
Early online date	16 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Event	13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2017 - L'Aquila, Italy Duration: 4 Sept 2017 → 8 Sept 2017

Keywords

Clustering
Document scope
Footprints
Geographic information retrieval
Toponyms

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