GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps Leveraging LLM and Open Knowledge Base (Short Paper)

Authors Yu Feng , Linfang Ding , Guohui Xiao



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Yu Feng
  • Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Linfang Ding
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Guohui Xiao
  • Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway

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Yu Feng, Linfang Ding, and Guohui Xiao. GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps Leveraging LLM and Open Knowledge Base (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 28:1-28:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.28

Abstract

GeoQA (Geographic Question Answering) is an emerging research field in GIScience, aimed at answering geographic questions in natural language. However, developing systems that seamlessly integrate structured geospatial data with unstructured natural language queries remains challenging. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have facilitated the application of natural language processing in various tasks. To achieve this goal, this study introduces GeoQAMap, a system that first translates natural language questions into SPARQL queries, then retrieves geospatial information from Wikidata, and finally generates interactive maps as visual answers. The system exhibits great potential for integration with other geospatial data sources such as OpenStreetMap and CityGML, enabling complicated geographic question answering involving further spatial operations.

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  • Applied computing → Cartography
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  • Geographic Question Answering
  • Large Language Models
  • SPARQL
  • Knowledge Base
  • Wikidata

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