Talking about Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets

Grant number: LP100200199 | Funding period: 2011 - 2015

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Abstract

Place descriptions are a common way for people to describe a location, but no current tools are smart enough to understand them. Emergency call centres are risking lives, users of navigation or web services are frustrated and addressing these problems costs billions of dollars per year. This project comes with a novel, interdisciplinary approach to automatically interpret human place descriptions and will develop novel methods to capture placenames with their meaning for smarter databases and automatic interpretation procedures. This acquired knowledge will be an important step forward for Australia's data custodians and users. Australia's location information industry will gain a significan..

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Places in Information Science

RS Purves, S Winter, W Kuhn

2019-11-01

Human spatial concepts, such as the concept of place, are not immediately translatable to the geometric foundations of spatial dat..

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Infrastructure-Independent Indoor Localization and Navigation

Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko, Maria Vasardani, Kai-Florian Richter, Kourosh Khoshelham, Mohsen Kalantari

2019-06-18

In the absence of any global positioning infrastructure for indoor environments, research on supporting human indoor localization ..

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Landmark Extraction from Web-Harvested Place Descriptions

Junchul Kim, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

2017-05-01

Large corpora of place descriptions provide abundant human spatial knowledge, different from the geometry-based information stored..

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Similarity matching for integrating spatial information extracted from place descriptions

Junchul Kim, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

2017-01-01

Place descriptions are used in everyday communication as a common way to convey spatial information. Processing the information fr..

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The preposition at from a spatial language, cognition, and information systems perspective

Maria Vasardani, Lesley Stirling, Stephan Winter

2017-01-01

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From descriptions to depictions: A dynamic sketch map drawing strategy

Junchul Kim, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

2016-01-02

People use verbal descriptions to communicate spatial information, externalising relevant parts of their mental spatial representa..

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Getting Lost in Cities: Spatial Patterns of Phonetically Confusing Street Names

Keith Chan, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

2015-08-01

A large street network is likely to contain duplicated or similar sounding street names. These conflicts can cause confusion in co..

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Is a richer address data model relevant for LBS?

H Gaitanis, S Winter

2014-01-01

Geocoded addresses usually code location by a single point that has no attached semantics other than representing the address. The..

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Understanding the provision of national location information in Australia: a PSMA case study

N Christensen, A Rajabifard, D Paull

2014-01-01

The demand for geospatial information has risen greatly while supply is still catching up. Particularly in Australia, the availabi..

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Locating place names from place descriptions

Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter, Kai-Florian Richter

2013-12-01

In this paper, we review the current literature on geographic information retrieval based on place names. We focus on the position..

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Granularity of locations referred to by place descriptions

Daniela Richter, Stephan Winter, Kai-Florian Richter, Lesley Stirling

2013-09-01

Place descriptions are a predominant means of human spatial communication. Their automated interpretation still poses a challenge ..

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Talking about place where it matters

S Winter, M Truelove

2013-01-01

This chapter poses questions towards a smart geographic communication: What is required to allow a person to talk to a machine in ..

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The Impact of Classification Approaches on the Detection of Hierarchies in Place Descriptions

Daniela Richter, Kai-Florian Richter, Stephan Winter

2013-01-01

The chapter investigates the identification of hierarchical structures in place descriptions. Different approaches to classify spa..

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The Impact of Classification Approaches on the Detection of Hierarchies in Place Descriptions

Daniela Richter, Kai-Florian Richter, Stephan Winter

2013-01-01

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Zooming in–zooming out hierarchies in place descriptions

D Richter, M Vasardani, L Stirlng, KF Richter, S Winter

2013-01-01

Hierarchical place descriptions are a common means for people to communicate about place. Within them hierarchically ordered eleme..

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How people describe their place: Identifying predominant types of place descriptions

D Richter, S Winter, KF Richter, L Stirling

2012-12-01

People communicate about locations using place descriptions. Despite the growth of mobile location- and context-aware applications..

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Spatial interpretations of preposition "at"

M Vasardani, S Winter, KF Richter, L Stirling, D Richter

2012-12-01

The current keyword- and substring matches-based retrieval methods most search engines rely on to answer spatial queries ignore th..

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Approaching the notion of place by contrast

Stephan Winter, Christian Freksa

2012-01-01

Place is an elusive notion in geographic information science. This paper presents an approach to capture the notion of place by co..