GeoAgent: To Empower LLMs using Geospatial Tools for Address Standardization (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to address address standardization are lacking in the current field. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that incorporates spatial knowledge into address texts and achieves efficient address standardization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework incorporates spatial knowledge into address texts and achieves efficient address standardization. |
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