Title
Geocam: A Geovisual Analytics Workspace To Contextualize And Interpret Statements About Movement
Abstract
This article focuses on integrating computational and visual methods in a system that supports analysts to identify, extract, map, and relate linguistic accounts of movement. We address two objectives: (1) build the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical framework needed to represent and interpret human-generated directions; and (2) design and implement a geovisual analytics workspace for direction document analysis. We have built a set of geo-enabled, computational methods to identify documents containing movement statements, and a visual analytics environment that uses natural language processing methods iteratively with geographic database support to extract, interpret, and map geographic movement references in context. Additionally, analysts can provide feedback to improve computational results. To demonstrate the value of this integrative approach, we have realized a proof-of-concept implementation focusing on identifying and processing documents that contain human-generated route directions. Using our visual analytic interface, an analyst can explore the results, provide feedback to improve those results, pose queries against a database of route directions, and interactively represent the route on a map.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.5311/JOSIS.2011.3.55
JOURNAL OF SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
geovisual analytics, text analysis, text-to-sketch, geographic information retrieval, spatial cognition, machine learning, movement, geospatial databases
Data science,Data mining,Document analysis,Computer science,Workspace,Spatial cognition,Geographic information retrieval,Geographic database,Analytics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
3
1948-660X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.73
22
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anuj R. Jaiswal11569.66
Scott Pezanowski217111.84
Prasenjit Mitra32439167.89
Xiao Zhang41427.95
Sen Xu5283.48
Ian Turton682.09
Alexander Klippel748349.70
Alan M. MacEachren81207104.22