arXiv AI

Geospatial AI, Dataverse Metadata, and the Study of Place-Based Government

The paper presents a knowledge graph built from Harvard Dataverse’s public data, linking 102,650 datasets to 215,985 nodes and 528,003 edges that include keywords, publications, subjects, journals, and locations. About 43,991 datasets contain geospatial metadata, and 7,654 are identified as policy‑relevant, with elections and legislatures forming the largest cluster. The authors highlight the challenge of place resolution—disconnected nodes representing the same location—and propose the graph as a testbed for AI‑driven metadata enrichment and entity resolution, noting a bias toward American city‑level data.

arXiv AI
Sep 1

AtlasNLP: A Country-Aware Atlas of Dataset Representation in NLP

arXiv:2608.30107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding which countries are represented in NLP datasets is essential for identifying gaps, targeting data collection, measuring progress, and i...

By Joan Nwatu, Tsedeniya Solomon Amare, Longju Bai, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Zayd Bashir, Angana Borah, Zara Burzo, Yubin Choi, Naihao Deng, Samika Gupta, Michel Faloughi, Claude Kwizera, Ziqiao Ma, Cynthia Yacel Fuertes Panizo, Ellie Seehorn, Hui Shen, Jiayi Tang, Zesen Zhao, Boyuan Zheng, Rada Mihalcea
arXiv AI
Aug 19

MoRA: Mobility as the Backbone for Geospatial Representation Learning at Scale

MoRA is a human‑centric geospatial representation learning framework that uses a large mobility graph as its backbone to fuse spatial tokenization, graph neural networks, and asymmetric contrastive learning. It aligns over 100 million points of interest, massive remote sensing imagery, and structured demographic data with a billion‑edge mobility graph, producing compact 128‑dimensional embeddings that capture socio‑economic context and functional roles of locations. On a benchmark of nine downstream social and economic prediction tasks, MoRA outperforms state‑of‑the‑art models by an average of 12.9% and demonstrates scaling behavior analogous to large language models.

By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Qiyao Ma, Linyan Li, Xinhua Chen, Chris Webster, Yulun Zhou
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Toward Governance-Aware Autonomous GIS: A Narrative Review of Ethical and Privacy Risks in LLM-Enabled GeoAI

The paper reviews ethical and privacy risks of large language model (LLM)–enabled geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), identifying eight recurring issues such as data provenance, spatial privacy, algorithmic bias, and technical risks. It evaluates current responses, noting many remain largely unaddressed or conceptual, and proposes a governance‑aware architecture with enforceable controls illustrated by a flood‑response routing scenario. The authors call for empirical validation, spatially specific interpretability tools, and workforce training to address these emerging risks.

By Maya Subramanian, Devika Jain