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GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Core geographical concepts: case Finnish geo-ontology
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
Eero Hyvönen, Riikka Henriksson, Tomi Kauppin...
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems
In order to utilize geographic web information for digital city applications, we have been developing a geographic web search system, KyotoSEARCH. When users retrieve geographic in...
Ryong Lee, H. Shiina, Taro Tezuka, Yusuke Yokota, ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
UB at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...