GIRPharma: a geographic information retrieval approach to locate pharmacies on duty

This paper describes an approximation based on geographic information retrieval with the purpose to give some solutions to the problem of searching pharmacies on duty in the Spanish territory. It is a novel investigation, which requires collaboration between multidisciplinary teams and that is beginning to show the first progress. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Search and Retrieval, I.2.7.[Natural Language Processing]: Text analysis, J.3.[Life and Medical Sciences]: Health General Terms Design, Experimentation. Keywords Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Toponym Disambiguation

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: COMGEO
• Authors: Francisco M. Rangel Pardo, Loli Rangel Pardo, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
• Keywords: COMGEO 2010, Geographic Information Retrieval, Geographic Information Systems, Keywords Geographic Information