Abstract

Today a tremendous amount of geospatial knowledge is hidden in massive volumes of text data. To facilitate flexible and powerful geospatial analysis and applications, we introduce a new architecture: geospatial knowledge hypercube, a multi-scale, multidimensional knowledge structure that integrates information from geospatial dimensions, thematic themes and diverse application semantics, extracted and computed from spatial-related text data. To construct such a knowledge hypercube, weakly supervised language models are leveraged for automatic, dynamic and incremental extraction of heterogeneous geospatial data, thematic themes, latent connections and relationships, and application semantics, through combining a variety of information from unstructured text, structured tables, and maps. The hypercube lays a foundation for many knowledge discovery and in-depth spatial analysis, and other advanced applications. We have deployed a prototype web application of proposed geospatial knowledge hypercube for public access at: https://hcwebapp.cigi.illinois.edu/.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
EditorsMaria Luisa Damiani, Matthias Renz, Ahmed Eldawy, Peer Kroger, Mario A. Nascimento
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701689
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 13 2023
Event31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: Nov 13 2023Nov 16 2023

Publication series

NameGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Conference

Conference31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period11/13/2311/16/23

Keywords

  • geographic information retrieval
  • knowledge hypercube
  • weakly-supervised text classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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