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Record W4411472578 · doi:10.1016/j.jag.2025.104683

Learning dual context aware POI representations for geographic mapping

2025· article· en· W4411472578 on OpenAlexaff
Quan Qin, Tinghua Ai, Shishuo Xu, Yan Zhang, Weiming Huang, Mingyi Du, Songnian Li

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan University
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsDual (grammatical number)GeographyContext (archaeology)CartographyData scienceComputer scienceArchaeologyLinguistics

Abstract

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Driven by artificial intelligence technologies, geospatial representation learning has become a new trend to better understand urban systems. Points of Interest (POI), as the current mainstream data in urban studies, plays an important role in these methods to discover urban characteristics. Existing studies on POI representation learning focus on spatial and type information, but overlook heterogeneous semantic interaction between POIs as well as hierarchical associations among types. To tackle these two problems, we propose a novel approach, called POI Dual Context Aware Neural Network (DCA) for learning POI representations by jointly embedding both spatial context and type context. For the spatial context of POIs, we introduce a distance decay effect constrained graph attention network as an encoder of DCA, which takes the heterogeneous semantic interaction and spatial proximity of POIs into account. For the type context of POIs, we propose a type hierarchical aggregation neural network architecture for DCA, and design a type infomax optimization objective following contrastive learning mechanism. The superiority of DCA is demonstrated in three geographic mapping tasks, including urban function mapping, region popularity mapping, and housing price mapping. This study provides a new insight to mine deep information from POIs, contributing to a better understanding of urban systems. The source code is released at http://github.com/quan-qin/DCA .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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