TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying destinations automatically from human generated route directions
AU - Zhang, Xiao
AU - Mitra, Prasenjit
AU - Klippel, Alexander
AU - MacEachren, Alan M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Automatic and accurate extraction of destinations in human-generated route descriptions facilitates visualizing text route descriptions on digital maps. Such information further supports research aiming at understanding human cognition of geospatial information. However, as reproted in previous work, the recognition of destinations is not satisfactory. In this paper, we show our approach and achievements in improving the accuracy of destination name recognition. We identified and evaluated multiple features for classifying a named entity to be either "destination" or "non- destination"; after that, we use a simple yet effective post-processing algorithm to improve classification accuracy. Comprehensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of our approach.
AB - Automatic and accurate extraction of destinations in human-generated route descriptions facilitates visualizing text route descriptions on digital maps. Such information further supports research aiming at understanding human cognition of geospatial information. However, as reproted in previous work, the recognition of destinations is not satisfactory. In this paper, we show our approach and achievements in improving the accuracy of destination name recognition. We identified and evaluated multiple features for classifying a named entity to be either "destination" or "non- destination"; after that, we use a simple yet effective post-processing algorithm to improve classification accuracy. Comprehensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of our approach.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863028577
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U2 - 10.1145/2093973.2094026
DO - 10.1145/2093973.2094026
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863028577
SN - 9781450310314
T3 - GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
SP - 373
EP - 376
BT - 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011
T2 - 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011
Y2 - 1 November 2011 through 4 November 2011
ER -