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Using LLMs for Analyzing AIS Data

Published: April 10, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.07557v2

By: Gaspard Merten, Gilles Dejaegere, Mahmoud Sakr

Potential Business Impact:

Helps understand ship movements from data.

Business Areas:
Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

Recent research in Large Language Models (LLMs), has had a profound impact across various fields, including mobility data science. This paper explores the and experiment with different approaches to using LLMs for analyzing AIS data. We propose a set of carefully designed queries to assess the reasoning capabilities of LLMs in this kind of tasks. Further, we experiment with four different methods: (1) using LLMs as a natural language interface to a spatial database, (2) reasoning on raw data, (3) reasoning on compressed trajectories, and (4) reasoning on semantic trajectories. We investigate the strengths and weaknesses for the four methods, and discuss the findings. The goal is to provide valuable insights for both researchers and practitioners on selecting the most appropriate LLM-based method depending on their specific data analysis objectives.

Country of Origin
🇧🇪 Belgium

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
9 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)