University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Annotation-free location mention mining from text corpora

Liu, Tingcong

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Title
Annotation-free location mention mining from text corpora
Author(s)
Liu, Tingcong
Issue Date
2024-06-27
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Han, Jiawei
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
  • Text Mining
  • Pre-trained Language Model
Abstract
This thesis provides a novel framework to extract location mentions from text corpora. Location mention mining plays an important role at analyzing and extracting structured knowledge from real-world text corpora like news and social media. Existing methods mainly rely on NER models or semantic parsers to extract locations but suffer from the following problems: (a) Entities tagged by NER models as LOC or GPE may not represent locations in the context. For example, in the sentence S1: “Ukraine forces are approaching Russia-held Kherson”, only “Kherson” is the true location mention although “Ukraine” and “Russia” are also of GPE type; and (b) A semantic parser cannot recognize locations in verb phrases. In S1, although “Kherson” refers to a location, it cannot be extracted as a locative argument by a semantic parser because it does not follow a preposition. This thesis defines a new task, location mention mining, aiming at extracting from a corpus all the mentions corresponding to real-world locations based on the context, and propose an annotation-free method, LocMine, which (1) constructs location-indicative term repositories using a background corpus and a knowledge base, (2) extracts and mines context-free location mentions based on the repositories, and (3) classifies context-dependent location mentions with pre-trained language models. This thesis provides extensive experiments and case studies showing that LocMine achieves the best performance among all the compared methods in terms of the ability to mine a complete set of location mentions from real-world corpora.
Graduation Semester
2024-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125538
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Copyright 2024 Tingcong Liu

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