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Main Authors: Zhang, Wenxiao, Liu, Yu, sun, Qiang, Ding, Yihao, Li, Sirui, Liu, Yanbing, Hong, Jin B., Liu, Wei
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08597
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author Zhang, Wenxiao
Liu, Yu
sun, Qiang
Ding, Yihao
Li, Sirui
Liu, Yanbing
Hong, Jin B.
Liu, Wei
author_facet Zhang, Wenxiao
Liu, Yu
sun, Qiang
Ding, Yihao
Li, Sirui
Liu, Yanbing
Hong, Jin B.
Liu, Wei
contents Extracting structured knowledge from unstructured data still faces practical limitations: entity and event extraction pipelines remain brittle, knowledge graph construction requires costly ontology engineering, and cross-domain generalization is rarely production-ready. In contrast, space and time provide universal contextual anchors that naturally align heterogeneous information and benefit downstream tasks such as retrieval and reasoning. We introduce \textbf{STIndex}, an end-to-end system that structures unstructured content into a multidimensional spatiotemporal data warehouse. Users define domain-specific analysis dimensions with configurable hierarchies, while large language models perform context-aware extraction and grounding. \textbf{STIndex} integrates document-level memory, geocoding correction, and quality validation, and offers an interactive analytics dashboard for visualization, clustering, burst detection, and entity network analysis. In evaluation on a public health benchmark, \textbf{STIndex} improves spatiotemporal entity extraction F1 by 4.37\% (GPT-4o-mini) and 3.60\% (Qwen3-8B). A live demonstration and open-source code are available at https://stindex.ai4wa.com/dashboard.
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spellingShingle STIndex: A Context-Aware Multi-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Information Extraction System
Zhang, Wenxiao
Liu, Yu
sun, Qiang
Ding, Yihao
Li, Sirui
Liu, Yanbing
Hong, Jin B.
Liu, Wei
Databases
Artificial Intelligence
Extracting structured knowledge from unstructured data still faces practical limitations: entity and event extraction pipelines remain brittle, knowledge graph construction requires costly ontology engineering, and cross-domain generalization is rarely production-ready. In contrast, space and time provide universal contextual anchors that naturally align heterogeneous information and benefit downstream tasks such as retrieval and reasoning. We introduce \textbf{STIndex}, an end-to-end system that structures unstructured content into a multidimensional spatiotemporal data warehouse. Users define domain-specific analysis dimensions with configurable hierarchies, while large language models perform context-aware extraction and grounding. \textbf{STIndex} integrates document-level memory, geocoding correction, and quality validation, and offers an interactive analytics dashboard for visualization, clustering, burst detection, and entity network analysis. In evaluation on a public health benchmark, \textbf{STIndex} improves spatiotemporal entity extraction F1 by 4.37\% (GPT-4o-mini) and 3.60\% (Qwen3-8B). A live demonstration and open-source code are available at https://stindex.ai4wa.com/dashboard.
title STIndex: A Context-Aware Multi-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Information Extraction System
topic Databases
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08597