Sarang Gupta


2020

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Mapping Local News Coverage: Precise location extraction in textual news content using fine-tuned BERT based language model
Sarang Gupta | Kumari Nishu
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science

Mapping local news coverage from textual content is a challenging problem that requires extracting precise location mentions from news articles. While traditional named entity taggers are able to extract geo-political entities and certain non geo-political entities, they cannot recognize precise location mentions such as addresses, streets and intersections that are required to accurately map the news article. We fine-tune a BERT-based language model for achieving high level of granularity in location extraction. We incorporate the model into an end-to-end tool that further geocodes the extracted locations for the broader objective of mapping news coverage.
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