CFP: GIScience 2021 Workshop and TGIS Special Issue on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI (GeoKG & GeoAI2021)
Gengchen Mai
GIScience 2021 Workshop on Methods, Models, and Resources for Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI (GeoKG & GeoAI 2021)
27 September 2021, Virtual workshop, more info at GeoKG & GeoAI 2021 website
Call for full research articles -- Submission deadline 15 Feb 2022
Transactions in GIS Special Issue on Methods, Models, and Resources for Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI
This special issue is associated with GeoKG 2021 workshop, more info at the TGIS website
Call For Paper
From a geospatial point-of-view, GeoAI, as an interdisciplinary field of GIScience and AI, advocates the idea of developing and utilizing AI techniques in geography and earth science. Geospatial knowledge graphs, as symbolic representations of geospatial knowledge, go to the core of GeoAI and facilitate many intelligent applications such as geospatial data integration and knowledge discovery. In fact, geospatial data plays an important role in the Linked Open Data cloud, an open-sourced cross-domain knowledge graph, since spatio-temporal scopes are essential for describing events, people, and objects. However, many relational machine learning models treat geographic entities as ordinary entities in which the spatial footprints of places are neglected and the distance decay effect is ignored. This results in suboptimal performance in many geospatial-related tasks such as geospatial knowledge graph completion, geographic question answering, geographic entity alignment, as well as geographic knowledge graph summarization.
In addition, there exist many demands for further advancements in other research topics related to GeoAI, such as remote sensing and street view image analysis, transportation modeling, and geo-text analysis. There are, for instance, many challenges in the adaptation of deep learning techniques to these scenarios, including the limited availability of labeled data or the difficulty of the models to generalize between locations. Incorporating geospatial knowledge (i.e., prior knowledge about the structure of objects on the surface of the Earth, and about the fundamental rules of geography) directly into deep neural network models, in the form of specially designed components and/or regularization schemes, is a promising approach to address the aforementioned challenges.
Based on the above observations, this combined workshop and tutorial emphasizes the importance of geospatial information and principles in designing, developing, and utilizing geospatial knowledge graphs and other GeoAI techniques. Accordingly, we call for new methods, models, and resources for advancing research related to Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI.
List of Relevant Topics
- Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
- Geographic Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Geographic Question Answering and Semantic Parsing based on Knowledge Graphs
- Geospatial Knowledge Graph Summarization
- Geo-Ontology Engineering and Geospatial Knowledge Graph Construction
- Spatio-Temporal Scoping of Knowledge Graphs
- Gazetteer Data Management
- Coreference Resolution for Geographic Entities
- Geographic Ontology Alignment
- Geospatial Knowledge Graph Construction and Completion
- Geographic Entity Similarity Measurement
- Querying and Visualization on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
- GeoSPARQL and Spatial Query Evaluation
- Knowledge Graph Visualization
- Geo-Ontology Visualization
- Geographic Information Retrieval and Geo-Text Analysis
- Text Geoparsing, Toponym Recognition, and Toponym Resolution
- Information Extraction from Location-Based Social Media
- Searching and Indexing Texts based on Locations
- Open Domain Geographic Question Answering
- Human Experience Extraction from Place Descriptions
- Spatially Explicit Machine Learning Methods and Models for GeoAI
- Bridging GIScience Methods with Deep Learning
- Model Invariance/Equivariance for Geospatial Applications (e.g., equivariance to changes in input scale or rotation)
- GeoAI for Geospatial Image Analysis
- Classification, Segmentation, and Object/Instance Recognition
- Remote Sensing Images
- Street View Images
- Scanned Paper Maps and Historical Imagery
- GeoAI Resources and Infrastructures
- Data Augmentation Strategies and Dataset Generation
- Development of benchmark Datasets, Tools, and Platforms
- Spatial Data Infrastructures Supporting GeoAI
- Other GeoAI Topics and Applications
- Transportation Modeling and Trajectory Data Analysis
- Spatial Optimization
- Spatio-Temporal Data Fusion and Assimilation
- Spatial Simulation (i.e. Learning Agents in Agent-based Simulations)
Important Date
- Paper submission: July 31, 2021 (extended)
- Acceptance decision: August 20, 2021
- Camera-ready version: August 31, 2021
- Workshop date: September 27, 2021
Information For Authors
This workshop will have a half-day for tutorial sessions and a half-day for research presentations. We welcome short research articles and industry demonstration papers regarding relevant topics. The page limit is 4 pages and the recommended template is the 2019 template provided by LIPIcs drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics-v2019/.... The submission Web page for both tracks of GIScience 2021 is easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geokg21.
Journal Special Issue
A special issue, with the same scope as this workshop, will be published in Transactions in GIS (TGIS). Submissions to the special issue may be made by either the workshop participants or others interested in the theme. Participation in the workshop does not guarantee acceptance in the special feature, and all submissions will be submitted to a review process that follows TGIS standards. However, we strongly recommend researchers first submit their initial work to this workshop as a preselection step.
The full papers will be due on Feb 15, 2022, thus allowing to incorporate feedback and new insights gained at the workshop, and potentially even forming new teams of authors. Please refer to the official CFP of this special issue from TGIS webpage and this PDF.
Organizers
- Gengchen Mai, Stanford AI Lab, Stanford University
- Yingjie Hu, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
- Song Gao, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ling Cai, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bruno Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
- Johannes Scholz, Institute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology
- Jing Gao, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware
PC Members
- Weiming Huang, GIS Centre, Lund University
- Fei Du, Apple Map
- Cogan Shimizu, Kansas State University
- Bo Yan, LinkedIn Corporation
- Ni Lao, SayMosaic
- Xi Liu, Google Inc.
- Yao-Yi Chiang, University of Southern California
- Rui Zhu, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Wenwen Li, Arizona State University
- Simon Scheider, University Utrecht, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning
- Carsten Keßler, Department of Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen
- Dalia Varanka, U.S. Geological Survey
- Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich
- Blake Regalia, NASA JPL
- Morteza Karimzadeh, University of Colorado Boulder
- Fan Zhang, MIT
- Hongxu Ma, Google X
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