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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)

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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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