Appendix 2: LTG Publications about the Geoparser

This is a list of some research papers relating to the Edinburgh Geoparser published by the Language Technology Group and our collaborators:

  • Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Kate Byrne, Matthew Woollard, James Reid, Stuart Dunn, and Julian Ball (2010). Use of the Edinburgh Geoparser for georeferencing digitised historical collections. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368(1925):3875-3889. In Edinburgh Research Explorer bibtex

  • Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Kate Byrne, James Reid and Jo Walsh (2010). Evaluation of georeferencing. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR’10), Zurich, Switzerland, Feb 2010. In Edinburgh Research Explorer bibtex

  • Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Beatrice Alex, and Kate Byrne (2010). Edinburgh-LTG: TempEval-2 system description. In Proceedings of SemEval-2010, Uppsala, Sweden. In Edinburgh Research Explorer bibtex

  • Bea Alex and Claire Grover (2010). Labelling and spatio-temporal grounding of news events. In Proceedings of the workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media at NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, USA. In Edinburgh Research Explorer bibtex

  • Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, Eric C. Kansa and Kate Byrne (2011). GAP: A NeoGeo Approach to Classical Resources. Leonardo Transactions, May 2011. pdf

  • Claire Grover and Richard Tobin (2014). A gazetteer and georeferencing for historical English documents. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH), pp. 119-127. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pdf

  • Beatrice Alex, Kate Byrne, Claire Grover and Richard Tobin (2014). A Web-based Geo-resolution Annotation and Evaluation Tool. In Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VIII), COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 59-63. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pdf

  • Jim Clifford, Beatrice Alex, Colin Coates, Andrew Watson and Ewan Klein (2014). Geoparsing History: Locating Commodities in Ten Million Pages of Nineteenth-Century Sources. Historical Methods, 49(3), pp. 115-131. In Edinburgh Research Explorer

  • Beatrice Alex, Kate Byrne, Claire Grover and Richard Tobin (2015). Adapting the Edinburgh Geoparser for Historical Georeferencing. International Journal for Humanities and Arts Computing, 9(1), pp. 15-35, March 2015. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pre-print

  • Beatrice Alex, Clare Llewellyn, Claire Grover, Jon Oberlander and Richard Tobin (2016). Homing in on Twitter users: Evaluating an Enhanced Geoparser for User Profile Locations. In Proceedings of the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pdf

  • Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin and Jon Oberlander (2019). Geoparsing Historical and Contemporary Literary Text set in the City of Edinburgh, Language Resources and Evaluation, 53(4): 651-675. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pdf

  • Rosa Filgueira, Claire Grover, Melissa Terras and Beatrice Alex (2020). Geoparsing the historical Gazetteers of Scotland: accurately computing location in mass digitised texts. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-8 2020) at LREC 2020, pp.24-30. In Edinburgh Research Explorer pdf

For a tutorial on how to install and run the Geoparser see also: