K.Stock et al. Creating a corpus of geospatial language (original) (raw)

The description of location using natural language is of interest for a number of research activities in geography, linguistics and cognitive science, including the development of methods for automated interpretation and generation of natural language to ease interaction with geographic information systems, as well as a number of related endeavours. For such research activities, examples of geospatial language are usually collected from the personal knowledge of researchers, or in small scale collection activities specific to the project concerned. This paper describes the process used to develop a more generic corpus of geospatial language. While the motivation for development was the authors' ongoing research into natural language geospatial querying, it also has wider applications across a range of research areas.