Journal
EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATICS
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 1393-1410Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-020-00527-9
Keywords
Geoscience document; Knowledge graph; Geological text mining; Natural language processing
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1711267, 41671400, 41871311, 41871305]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFB0505500, 2018YFB0505504]
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A large number of georeferenced quantitative data about rock and geoscience surveys are buried in geological documents and remain unused. Data analytics and information extraction offer opportunities to use this data for improved understanding of ore forming processes and to enhance our knowledge. Extracting spatiotemporal and semantic information from a set of geological documents enables us to develop a rich representation of the geoscience knowledge recorded in unstructured text written in Chinese. This paper presents the workflow for spatiotemporal and semantic information extraction, which is a geological document analysis approach that uses automated techniques for browsing and searching relevant geological content. The developed workflow applies spatial and temporal gazetteer matching, pattern-based rules and spatiotemporal relationship extraction to identify and label terms in geological text documents. It offers a representation of contextual information in knowledge graph form, extracts a set of relevant tables and figures, and queries a list of relevant documents by using geological topic information. Here, text mining techniques are used to facilitate the analysis of geological knowledge and to show the effectiveness of text analysis for improving the rapid assessment of a massive number of documents. Furthermore, autogenerated keyword suggestions derived from extracted keyword associations are used to reduce document search efforts. This research illustrates the usefulness and effectiveness of the developed information extraction workflow and demonstrates the potential of incorporating text mining and NLP techniques for geoscience.
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