TY - JOUR
T1 - A survey on geocoding
T2 - algorithms and datasets for toponym resolution
AU - Zhang, Zeyu
AU - Bethard, Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Geocoding, the task of converting unstructured text to structured spatial data, has recently seen progress thanks to a variety of new datasets, evaluation metrics, and machine-learning algorithms. Geocoding plays a critical role in tasks such as tracking the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, analyzing and searching documents by geography, geospatial analysis of historical events, and disaster response mechanisms. To assist those new to this area of research, we provide a survey that reviews, organizes and analyzes recent work on geocoding (also known as toponym resolution) where text is matched to geospatial coordinates and/or ontologies. We summarize the findings of this research, including the domains and databases covered by current geocoding corpora, point-based and polygon-based evaluation metrics, and features and architectures of geocoding systems.
AB - Geocoding, the task of converting unstructured text to structured spatial data, has recently seen progress thanks to a variety of new datasets, evaluation metrics, and machine-learning algorithms. Geocoding plays a critical role in tasks such as tracking the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, analyzing and searching documents by geography, geospatial analysis of historical events, and disaster response mechanisms. To assist those new to this area of research, we provide a survey that reviews, organizes and analyzes recent work on geocoding (also known as toponym resolution) where text is matched to geospatial coordinates and/or ontologies. We summarize the findings of this research, including the domains and databases covered by current geocoding corpora, point-based and polygon-based evaluation metrics, and features and architectures of geocoding systems.
KW - Geocoding
KW - Geographical entity normalization
KW - Toponym resolution
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U2 - 10.1007/s10579-024-09730-2
DO - 10.1007/s10579-024-09730-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85195569118
SN - 1574-020X
JO - Language Resources and Evaluation
JF - Language Resources and Evaluation
ER -