Speaking of Location: Future Directions in Geospatial Natural Language Research,4/9/2017, L’Aquila, Italy

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 4th September 2017, L’Aquila, Italy Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language has been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives.  This multidisciplinary workshop will explore current developments in the area with a particular view to considering directions and priorities for future research.  It will include both peer-reviewed presentations and group discussions. The scope approaches to automated extraction and understanding of natural language descriptions of location in textual…