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Leveraging textual and spatial data provided in spatio-textual objects (eg., tweets), has become increasingly important in real-world applications, favoured by the increasing rate of their availability these last decades (eg., through smartphones). In this paper, we propose a spatial retrofitting method of word embeddings that could reveal the localised similarity of word pairs as well as the diversity of their localised meanings. Experiments based on the semantic location prediction task show that our method achieves significant improvement over strong baselines.
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This research was supported by IRIT and ATOS Intégration research program under ANRT CIFRE grant agreement \(\#2016/403\).
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Mousset, P., Pitarch, Y., Tamine, L. (2019). Towards Spatial Word Embeddings. In: Azzopardi, L., Stein, B., Fuhr, N., Mayr, P., Hauff, C., Hiemstra, D. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15719-7_7
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