Textgeographic
Textgeographic is a field that focuses on extracting and interpreting geographic information contained in natural language text. It covers the identification of geographic references (toponyms), the resolution of these references to precise coordinates, and the integration of that information into geographic information systems and retrieval systems. The central tasks include geoparsing, named-entity recognition for locations, toponym disambiguation, and geocoding to map references to coordinates using gazetteers such as GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, or national databases. It often combines natural language processing with geographic information system methods to analyze spatial relationships and geographic distribution in text.
Applications of textgeographic include analyzing news reports for event locations, processing social media posts during disasters,
Data sources commonly used are news articles, travel writing, blogs, and social media. Techniques address cross-lingual