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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.11
Semantic Perspectives on the Lake District Writing: Spatial Ontology Modeling and Relation Extraction for Deeper Insights

Authors: Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, and John G. Stell

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)

Abstract
Extracting spatial details from historical texts can be difficult, hindering our understanding of past landscapes. The study addresses this challenge by analyzing the Corpus of the Lake District Writing, focusing on the English Lake District region. We systematically link the theoretical notions from the core concepts of spatial information to provide basis for the problem domain. The conceptual foundation is further complemented with a spatial ontology and a custom gazetteer, allowing a formal and insightful semantic exploration of the massive unstructured corpus. The other contrasting side of the framework is the usage of LLMs for spatial relation extraction. We formulate prompts leveraging understanding of the LLMs of the intended task, curate a list of spatial relations representing the most recurring proximity or vicinity relations terms and extract semantic triples for the top five place names appearing in the corpus. We compare the extraction capabilities of three benchmark LLMs for a scholarly significant historical archive, representing their potential in a challenging and interdisciplinary research problem. Finally, the network comprising the semantic triples is enhanced by incorporating a gazetteer-based classification of the objects involved thus improving their spatial profiling.
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Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, and John G. Stell. Semantic Perspectives on the Lake District Writing: Spatial Ontology Modeling and Relation Extraction for Deeper Insights. In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 11:1-11:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{haris_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.11,
  author =	{Haris, Erum and Cohn, Anthony G. and Stell, John G.},
  title =	{{Semantic Perspectives on the Lake District Writing: Spatial Ontology Modeling and Relation Extraction for Deeper Insights}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-330-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{315},
  editor =	{Adams, Benjamin and Griffin, Amy L. and Scheider, Simon and McKenzie, Grant},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208268},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: spatial humanities, spatial narratives, ontology, large language models}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.37
Understanding the Spatial Complexity in Landscape Narratives Through Qualitative Representation of Space (Short Paper)

Authors: Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, and John G. Stell

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
Narratives are the richest source of information about the human experience of place. They represent events and movement, both physical and conceptual, within time and space. Existing techniques in geographical text analysis usually incorporate named places with coordinate information. This is a serious limitation because many textual references to geography are ambiguous, non-specific, or relative. It is imperative but hard for a geographic information system to capture a text’s sense of place, an imprecise concept. This work aims to utilize qualitative spatial representation and natural language processing to allow representations of all three characteristics of place (location, locale, sense of place) as found in textual sources.
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Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, and John G. Stell. Understanding the Spatial Complexity in Landscape Narratives Through Qualitative Representation of Space (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 37:1-37:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{haris_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.37,
  author =	{Haris, Erum and Cohn, Anthony G. and Stell, John G.},
  title =	{{Understanding the Spatial Complexity in Landscape Narratives Through Qualitative Representation of Space}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.37},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189323},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: Narratives, Qualitative spatial representation, Natural language processing}
}
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