Welcome to 290061 PS Principles and Methods of Application Development - Geographic Information Retrieval (2024W)#
Aims, contents and method of the course#
The size, modality, and source of information about any place or region in the world are constantly changing. To support a wide variety of downstream tasks such as geographic question answering, geographic information retrieval (GIR) provides us with an approach of accessing, searching, indexing, and integrating geographic information. Applications related to GIR include the construction of gazetteers, Web search engines, location-based recommendation services, and so forth. The course will cover GIR’s core concepts, techniques and challenges, such as the ambiguity of place names, topological relations, georeferencing, spatial indexing and ranking, and user interface development. Through literature review and Python-based practical exercises, students will also learn how to query structured data from geographic databases, how to geoparse unstructured texts to extract location references, and geospatial semantic analysis and interactive geo-visualization with retrieved information.
Syllabus#
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Week 1 (03.10.24) |
A Course Overview |
Lab 1 |
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Week 2 (10.10.24) |
Basic Models of Space |
Lab 2 |
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Week 3 (17.10.24) |
Spatial Language in Documents and Queries |
Lab 3 |
Assignment 1 |
Week 4 (24.10.24) |
Georeferencing I - Geoparsing |
Lab 4 |
Assignment 1 due |
Week 5 (31.10.24) |
Georeferencing II - Geocoding |
Lab 5 |
Assignment 2 |
Week 6 (07.11.24) |
Spatial Indexing |
Lab 6 |
Assignment 2 due |
Week 7 (14.11.24) |
Relevance Ranking for GIR Systems |
Lab 7 |
Assignment 3 |
Week 8 (21.11.24) |
Geospatial Semantics I |
Lab 8 |
Assignment 3 due |
Week 9 (28.11.24) |
Geospatial Semantics II |
Lab 9 |
Assignment 4 |
Week 10 (05.12.24) |
Ongoing Research and Challenges in GIR |
Final Project Grouping |
Assignment 4 due |
Week 11 (16.01.25) |
Final Presentation |
Assessment and permitted materials#
Participation (10%)
Four assignments (60%)
Final (group) project and presentation (30%)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria#
Personal contribution and teamwork that demonstrate an appropriate understanding of the approaches and methods discussed.
Reading list#
Purves, R. S., Clough, P., Jones, C. B., Hall, M. H., & Murdock, V. (2018). Geographic information retrieval: Progress and challenges in spatial search of text. Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, 12(2-3), 164-318.
Presentation and slides (including references)