Meteorologists and Students: A resource for language grounding of geographical descriptors

TL;DR

This paper introduces a data resource comprising geographical descriptors and their graphical representations, created by students and meteorologists, to support language grounding research in geographical referring expressions.

Contribution

It provides a novel dataset of geographical descriptors with human-drawn polygons, facilitating research on language grounding in geographic contexts.

Findings

Dataset includes 25 geographical descriptors.

Graphical representations created by students and meteorologists.

Supports research in language grounding tasks.

Abstract

We present a data resource which can be useful for research purposes on language grounding tasks in the context of geographical referring expression generation. The resource is composed of two data sets that encompass 25 different geographical descriptors and a set of associated graphical representations, drawn as polygons on a map by two groups of human subjects: teenage students and expert meteorologists.