Differentiating geographic movement described in text documents

Understanding movement described in text documents is important since descriptions of contain a wealth geographic and contextual information about the people, wildlife, goods, much more. Our research makes several contributions to improve our understanding text. First, we show how interpreting challenging because general spatial terms, linguistic constructions that make thing(s) moving unclear, many types temporal references groupings, among others. Next, as step overcome these challenges, report on an experiment with human subjects through which identify multiple characteristics (found text) humans use differentiate one description from another. Based empirical results, provide recommendations for computational analysis using documents. findings contribute towards improved underused form descriptions.