LocLinkVis: A Geographic Information Retrieval-Based System for Large-Scale Exploratory Search

TL;DR

LocLinkVis is a system that enables large-scale exploratory search through document collections by leveraging geo-referencing, visualization, and a comprehensive gazetteer to recognize and disambiguate toponyms.

Contribution

It introduces a novel system integrating geo-referencing, visualization, and a detailed gazetteer for enhanced exploratory search capabilities.

Findings

Effective recognition and disambiguation of toponyms

Visualization of spatial footprints improves user understanding

Supports large-scale geographic exploratory search

Abstract

In this paper we present LocLinkVis (Locate-Link-Visualize); a system which supports exploratory information access to a document collection based on geo-referencing and visualization. It uses a gazetteer which contains representations of places ranging from countries to buildings, and that is used to recognize toponyms, disambiguate them into places, and to visualize the resulting spatial footprints.