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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
JASIS
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Hip and trendy: Characterizing emerging trends on Twitter
Twitter, Facebook, and other related systems that we call social awareness streams are rapidly changing the information and communication dynamics of our society. These systems, w...
Mor Naaman, Hila Becker, Luis Gravano
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Location disambiguation in local searches using gradient boosted decision trees
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Ritesh Agrawal, James G. Shanahan
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Intelligent Web Search via Personalizable Meta-search Agents
This paper addresses several problems associated with the specification of Web searches, and the retrieval, filtering, and rating of Web pages in order to improve the relevance, pr...
Larry Kerschberg, Wooju Kim, Anthony Scime
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Xing Yi, Hema Raghavan, Chris Leggetter