geoparsing

Researchers working with text data are often faced with the problem of identifying place names in text and linking them to their geographic coordinates. In social science, we might want to measure news coverage of specific locations, track discussions of specific places in government documents, or geolocate events such protests to the locations where they occur.

I’ve been working a lot of automated geocoding of text over the last 6 months, and I’ve found myself consistently describing the same set of tasks or ways to extract location information from text.