| Challenge: | Existing datasets in English for textual geolocation are limited because of the location of the place is implicit. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Hebrew place description corpus to analyze lingual geospatial reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The Hebrew Geo-Location corpus collects literal Hebrew place descriptions and analyzes lingual geospatial reasoning. |
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