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Towards contextualized models of spatial relations

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Jan Oliver Wallgrün,

Alexander Klippel,

Morteza KarimzadehAuthors Info & Claims

GIR '15: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2837689.2837692

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We argue that Geographic Information Retrieval has a lot to gain from the creation of contextualized models of spatial relations that capture how human usage of spatial relational expressions is affected by contextual factors. We propose a framework to develop such models and discuss challenges.

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Karimzadeh MMacEachren A(2019)GeoAnnotator: A Collaborative Semi-Automatic Platform for Constructing Geo-Annotated Text CorporaISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information10.3390/ijgi80401618:4(161)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2019
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8040161
Yousaf MWolter D(2017)Spatial Information Extraction from Natural language Place Description for Incorporating Contextual VariablesProceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval10.1145/3155902.3155910(1-2)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3155902.3155910

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Towards contextualized models of spatial relations
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking
      1. Language models
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Spatial-temporal systems
      1. Geographic information systems

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GIR '15: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval

November 2015

90 pages

ISBN:9781450339377

DOI:10.1145/2837689

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Ross S. Purves
University of Zurich
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Christopher B. Jones
Cardiff University

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November 26 - 27, 2015

Paris, France

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Karimzadeh MMacEachren A(2019)GeoAnnotator: A Collaborative Semi-Automatic Platform for Constructing Geo-Annotated Text CorporaISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information10.3390/ijgi80401618:4(161)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2019
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8040161
Yousaf MWolter D(2017)Spatial Information Extraction from Natural language Place Description for Incorporating Contextual VariablesProceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval10.1145/3155902.3155910(1-2)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2017
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