SPOT: Bridging Natural Language and Geospatial Search for Investigative Journalism (2025.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing tools to query OSM data require familiarity with complex query languages, creating barriers for non-technical users. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a semantic bundling system to make querying OSM more accessible through intuitive scene descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system interprets user inputs as structured representations of geospatial object configurations using fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) with results displayed in an interactive map interface. |
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