@InProceedings{liao_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.4, author = {Liao, Ruoxuan and Das, Pragyan P. and Jones, Christopher B. and Aflaki, Niloofar and Stock, Kristin}, title = {{Predicting Distance and Direction from Text Locality Descriptions for Biological Specimen Collections}}, booktitle = {15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022)}, pages = {4:1--4:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-257-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {240}, editor = {Ishikawa, Toru and Fabrikant, Sara Irina and Winter, Stephan}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.4}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-168892}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.4}, annote = {Keywords: geospatial prepositions, biological specimen collections, georeferencing, natural language processing, locative expressions, locality descriptions, geoparsing, geocoding, geographic information retrieval, regression, machine learning} }