Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Program
0900-0930: Welcome and opening discussion : Foreword
0930-1040: Session 1 - Geoparsing
0930-1000: EUPEG: Towards an Extensible and Unified Platform for Evaluating Geoparsers
Yingjie Hu
1000-1040: Towards Generalizable Place Name Recognition Systems: Analysis and Enhancement of NER Systems on English News from India
Arda Akdemir, Ali Hürriyetoglu, Erdem Yörük, Burak Gürel, Çagri Yoltar & Deniz Yüret
1040-1120: Coffee Break
1120-1220: Session 2 - Building and exploring corpora
1120-1150: Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception
Olga Chesnokova and Ross Purves
1150-1220: Evaluating the Representativeness in the Geographic Distribution of Twitter User Population
Junjun Yin, Guangqing Chi & Jennifer Van Hook
1220-1400: Lunch
1400-1600: Session 3 - Future Challenges
1400-1430: Machine Learning to Improve Retrieval by Category in Big Volunteered Geodata
Alexandre Sorokine, Gautam Thakur & Rachel Palumbo
1430-1500: From spatial representation to processes, relational networks, and thematic roles in geographic information retrieval
Benjamin Adams
1500-1545: Discussion
1545-1630: Coffee Break
1630-1740: Session 4 - Question Answering in GIR
1630-1700: POIReviewQA: A Semantically Enriched POI Retrieval and Question Answering Dataset
Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Cheng He, Sumang Liu & Ni Lao
1700-1740: Template-Based Question Answering over Linked Geospatial Data
Dharmen Punjani, Kuldeep Singh, Andreas Both, Manolis Koubarakis, Iosif Angelidis, Konstantina Bereta, Themis Beris, Dimitris Bilidas, Theofilos Ioannidis, Nikos Karalis, Christoph Lange, Despina Pantazi, Christos Papaloukas & George Stamoulis
1740-1800: Closing Discussion