Extracting and analysing geographic information from natural language texts.

Xuke Hu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-0243 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130863611

Xuke Hu Ross S. Purves Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Kristin Stock Extracting and analysing geographic information from natural language texts. 2026 March 631-644 40 Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2026.2629948 db/journals/gis/gis40.html#HuPMKS26 streams/journals/gis

Xuke Hu Jens Kersten Friederike Klan Sheikh Mastura Farzana Toponym resolution leveraging lightweight and open-source large language models and geo-knowledge. 2026 March 670-697 40 Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2024.2405182 db/journals/gis/gis40.html#HuKKF26 streams/journals/gis

Xuke Hu Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Anna M. Kruspe Inhye Kong 4th International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2026). ECIR (3) 2026 192-198 conf/ecir/2026-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_15 db/conf/ecir/ecir2026-3.html#HuMKKK26 streams/conf/ecir Xuke Hu Ross Purves Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Anna M. Kruspe 3rd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2025). 352-357 2025 ECIR (5) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_54 conf/ecir/2025-5 db/conf/ecir/ecir2025-5.html#HuPMKK25 streams/conf/ecir Xuke Hu Jens Kersten Friederike Klan Scalable Toponym Resolution with LLMs: Accuracy and Speed Optimizations. 46-51 2025 GeoExT@ECIR https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3969/paper6.pdf conf/geoext/2025 db/conf/geoext/geoext2025.html#HuKK25 Xuke Hu Ross Purves Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Anna M. Kruspe Proceedings of The GeoExT 2025: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop co-located with The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Lucca, Italy, April 10, 2025. GeoExT@ECIR CEUR-WS.org 2025 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3969 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3969 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-3969-X db/conf/geoext/geoext2025.html

Xuke Hu Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Hao Li 0019 Yingjie Hu 0001 Fuqiang Gu Jens Kersten Hongchao Fan Friederike Klan Location Reference Recognition from Texts: A Survey and Comparison. 112:1-112:37 2024 May 56 ACM Comput. Surv. 5 https://doi.org/10.1145/3625819 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130902858 db/journals/csur/csur56.html#HuZLHGKFK24

Xuke Hu Tobias Elßner Shiyu Zheng Helen Ngonidzashe Serere Jens Kersten Friederike Klan Qinjun Qiu DLRGeoTweet: A comprehensive social media geocoding corpus featuring fine-grained places. 103742 2024 61 Inf. Process. Manag. 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103742 db/journals/ipm/ipm61.html#HuEZSKKQ24

Xuke Hu Jens Kersten Enhancing Toponym Resolution with Fine-Tuned LLMs (Llama2). 52-56 2024 GeoExT@ECIR https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3683/paper7.pdf conf/ecir/2024geoext db/conf/ecir/geoext2024.html#HuK24 Xuke Hu Ross Purves Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Kristin Stock 2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2024). 437-441 2024 ECIR (5) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_60 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q134675913 conf/ecir/2024-5 db/conf/ecir/ecir2024-5.html#HuPMKS24 Xuke Hu Ross Purves Ludovic Moncla Jens Kersten Kristin Stock Proceedings of The GeoExT 2024: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop co-located with The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Glasgow, Scotland, March 24, 2024. GeoExT@ECIR CEUR-WS.org 2024 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3683 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3683 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-3683-4 db/conf/ecir/geoext2024.html

Xuke Hu Yeran Sun Jens Kersten Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Friederike Klan Hongchao Fan How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation? 103191 2023 March 117 Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103191 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125807985 db/journals/aeog/aeog117.html#HuSKZKF23

Hui Zhao Fangwen Yu Xuke Hu Zhi Xiong Jianga Shang Fuqiang Gu Editorial: Brain-inspired navigation and sensing for robots. 2023 June 17 Frontiers Neurorobotics https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2023.1329324 db/journals/finr/finr17.html#ZhaoYHXSG23

Xuke Hu Yingjie Hu 0001 Bernd Resch Jens Kersten Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT). 398-404 2023 ECIR (3) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_44 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124685324 conf/ecir/2023-3 db/conf/ecir/ecir2023-3.html#HuHRK23 Jan Bongard Tobias Elßner Xuke Hu Jens Kersten The Geography of Conflicts: A Comparative Assessment of Web Data. 18-23 2023 EM-GIS https://doi.org/10.1145/3615884.3629424 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130863613 conf/em-gis/2023 db/conf/em-gis/em-gis2023.html#BongardEHK23 Xuke Hu Yingjie Hu 0001 Bernd Resch Jens Kersten Kristin Stock Proceedings of the First Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2023) co-located with The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), Dublin, Ireland, April 2nd, 2023. GeoExT@ECIR CEUR-WS.org 2023 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3385 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3385 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-3385-1 db/conf/ecir/geoext2023.html Ludovic Moncla Bruno Martins 0001 Katherine McDonough Xuke Hu Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, GeoHumanities 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 13 November 2023 GeoHumanities@SIGSPATIAL ACM 2023 https://doi.org/10.1145/3615887 db/conf/gis/geohumanities2023.html

Xuke Hu Hussein S. Al-Olimat Jens Kersten Matti Wiegmann Friederike Klan Yeran Sun Hongchao Fan GazPNE: annotation-free deep learning for place name extraction from microblogs leveraging gazetteer and synthetic data by rules. 310-337 2022 36 Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 2 https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1947507 db/journals/gis/gis36.html#HuAKWKSF22

Xuke Hu Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Yeran Sun Jens Kersten Friederike Klan Hongchao Fan Matti Wiegmann GazPNE2: A General Place Name Extractor for Microblogs Fusing Gazetteers and Pretrained Transformer Models. 16259-16271 2022 9 IEEE Internet Things J. 17 https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2022.3150967 db/journals/iotj/iotj9.html#HuZSKKFW22

Xuke Hu Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Hao Li 0019 Yingjie Hu 0001 Fuqiang Gu Jens Kersten Hongchao Fan Friederike Klan Location reference recognition from texts: A survey and comparison. 2022 abs/2207.01683 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.01683 db/journals/corr/corr2207.html#abs-2207-01683

Xuke Hu Yeran Sun Jens Kersten Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Friederike Klan Hongchao Fan How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation? 2022 abs/2209.08286 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.08286 db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-08286

Yijie Wu Jianga Shang Pan Chen 0004 Sisi Zlatanova Xuke Hu Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Indoor mapping and modeling by parsing floor plan images. 1205-1231 2021 35 Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 6 https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2020.1781130 db/journals/gis/gis35.html#WuSCZHZ21

Xuke Hu Alexey Noskov Hongchao Fan Tessio Novack Hao Li 0019 Fuqiang Gu Jianga Shang Alexander Zipf Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning. 1773-1801 2021 35 Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 9 https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2020.1861282 db/journals/gis/gis35.html#HuNFNLGSZ21

Xuke Hu Hongchao Fan Alexey Noskov Zhiyong Wang 0004 Alexander Zipf Fuqiang Gu Jianga Shang Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building. 71-111 2021 25 Trans. GIS 1 https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12664 db/journals/tgis/tgis25.html#HuFNWZGS21

Fuqiang Gu Weicong Sng Xuke Hu Fangwen Yu EventDrop: Data Augmentation for Event-based Learning. 700-707 2021 IJCAI https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/97 conf/ijcai/2021 db/conf/ijcai/ijcai2021.html#GuSHY21

Fuqiang Gu Weicong Sng Xuke Hu Fangwen Yu EventDrop: data augmentation for event-based learning. 2021 abs/2106.05836 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05836 db/journals/corr/corr2106.html#abs-2106-05836

Xuke Hu Building semantics reasoning by using rules based on available geospatial information. 2020 1-233 University of Heidelberg, Germany https://d-nb.info/1243459123

Xuke Hu Lei Ding Jianga Shang Hongchao Fan Tessio Novack Alexey Noskov Alexander Zipf Data-driven approach to learning salience models of indoor landmarks by using genetic programming. 1230-1257 2020 13 Int. J. Digit. Earth 11 https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2019.1701109 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q126395064 db/journals/digearth/digearth13.html#HuDSFNNZ20

Fan Xu 0008 Xuke Hu Shuaiwei Luo Jianga Shang An Efficient Indoor Wi-Fi Positioning Method Using Virtual Location of AP. 261 2020 9 ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf. 4 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040261 db/journals/ijgi/ijgi9.html#XuHLS20

Yeran Sun Xuke Hu Ying Huang Ting On Chan Spatial Patterns of Childhood Obesity Prevalence in Relation to Socioeconomic Factors across England. 599 2020 9 ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf. 10 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9100599 db/journals/ijgi/ijgi9.html#SunHHC20

Fuqiang Gu Xuke Hu Milad Ramezani Debaditya Acharya Kourosh Khoshelham Shahrokh Valaee Jianga Shang Indoor Localization Improved by Spatial Context - A Survey. 64:1-64:35 2019 52 ACM Comput. Surv. 3 https://doi.org/10.1145/3322241 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127577722 db/journals/csur/csur52.html#GuHRAKVS19

Xuke Hu Hongchao Fan Alexey Noskov Alexander Zipf Zhiyong Wang 0004 Jianga Shang Feasibility of Using Grammars to Infer Room Semantics. 1535 2019 11 Remote. Sens. 13 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11131535 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127610467 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing11.html#HuFNZWS19

Xuke Hu Hongchao Fan Alexey Noskov Roof model recommendation for complex buildings based on combination rules and symmetry features in footprints. 1039-1063 2018 11 Int. J. Digit. Earth 10 https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2017.1373867 db/journals/digearth/digearth11.html#HuFN18

Jianga Shang Xuke Hu Wen Cheng Hongchao Fan GridiLoc: A Backtracking Grid Filter for Fusing the Grid Model with PDR Using Smartphone Sensors. 2137 2016 16 Sensors 12 https://doi.org/10.3390/s16122137 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33451944 db/journals/sensors/sensors16.html#ShangHCF16

Xuke Hu Jianga Shang Fuqiang Gu Qi Han 0001 Improving Wi-Fi Indoor Positioning via AP Sets Similarity and Semi-Supervised Affinity Propagation Clustering. 109642:1-109642:11 2015 11 Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/109642 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59106997 db/journals/ijdsn/ijdsn11.html#HuSGH15

Jianga Shang Fuqiang Gu Xuke Hu Allison Kealy APFiLoc: An Infrastructure-Free Indoor Localization Method Fusing Smartphone Inertial Sensors, Landmarks and Map Information. 27251-27272 2015 15 Sensors 10 https://doi.org/10.3390/s151027251 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33445658 db/journals/sensors/sensors15.html#ShangGHK15

Debaditya Acharya Hussein Al-OlimatHussein S. Al-Olimat Jan Bongard Ting On Chan Pan Chen 0004 Wen Cheng Lei Ding Tobias Elßner Hongchao Fan Sheikh Mastura Farzana Fuqiang Gu Qi Han 0001 Yingjie Hu 0001 Ying Huang Allison Kealy Jens Kersten Kourosh Khoshelham Friederike Klan Inhye Kong Anna M. Kruspe Hao Li 0019 Shuaiwei Luo Bruno Martins 0001 Katherine McDonough Ludovic Moncla Alexey Noskov Tessio Novack Ross PurvesRoss S. Purves Qinjun Qiu Milad Ramezani Bernd Resch Helen Ngonidzashe Serere Jianga Shang Weicong Sng Kristin Stock Yeran Sun Shahrokh Valaee Zhiyong Wang 0004 Matti Wiegmann Yijie Wu Zhi Xiong Fan Xu 0008 Fangwen Yu Hui Zhao Shiyu Zheng Zhiyong Zhou 0005 Alexander Zipf Sisi Zlatanova