Towards a Search System for the Web Exploiting Spatial Data of a Web Document

In this paper, we describe our work in progress in the scope of information retrieval exploiting the spatial data extracted from web documents. We discuss problems of a search for web documents by geographic distance, where the geographic distance of a document is determined automatically using information extraction methods. We present here our approach of building a distributed search system, which deals with several problems of this area. Search by geographic distance is useful, for example if we are looking for the nearest restaurant, hotel or any other business near our location (reference point). Almost every company today presents its business on the Internet sharing business information along with contact information. There can be miscellaneous geographic information extracted from the contact information (but no only from it) and used to compute geographic distance of a document. Under a document's geographic distance, we understand the distance between a search reference...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Stefan Dlugolinsky, Michal Laclavik, Ladislav Hluchý
• Keywords: Database, DEXAW 2010, Geographic Distance, Geographic Locations, Web Documents