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How More Zero Location Mentions Impairs Geolocation Accuracy
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location accuracy
zeros
contextual features
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PSR&M
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Modeling Related Processes with an Excess of Zeros was authored by David Carlson. It was published by Cambridge in PSR&M in 2019.

### Context Is Key: Addressing Inaccurate Geolocation in Text Data

Automated text processing often struggles with inaccurate geolocation mentions. This article introduces a two-stage supervised machine-learning algorithm designed to tackle this issue.

#### Experimental Approach

We extract contextual information from texts, including N-gram patterns for location words, mention frequency, and sentence context containing these words. Using training data sets, we estimate model parameters before applying it to test data sets.

#### Key Findings & Implications

Our results demonstrate that the algorithm significantly outperforms existing geocoders, even when handling additional zeros in a post-hoc case study. This advancement enhances event localization accuracy using news articles from around the world.

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