In social network analysis and information retrieval, research has recently been devoted to the extraction of implicit relationships between persons from unstructured textual sources. In this paper, we adapt such a person-centric approach to the extraction of locations and build the  Wikipedia Location Network  based on co-occurrences of place names in the English Wikipedia. We summarize the network's characteristics and demonstrate its value for future location relationship analysis tasks.
['Johanna Geiß', 'Andreas Spitz', 'Jannik Strötgen', 'Michael Gertz']
The Wikipedia location network: overcoming borders and oceans