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GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Associating spatial patterns to text-units for summarizing geographic information
Retrieving data based not only on key words is a challenge. We worked on semi-structured data (cultural heritage corpora). Our project aimed at getting the most relevant text-unit...
Julien Lesbegueries, Christian Sallaberry, Mauro G...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
TALP at GeoCLEF 2006: Experiments Using JIRS and Lucene with the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the GeoCLEF 2006 Monolingual English task. The TALPGeoIR sy...
Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Geographic features in web search retrieval
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...
Rosie Jones, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Fuzzy Spatial Reasoning in Geographic IR Systems
Vague spatial information such as “x is located at walking distance of y” is abundant on the web. In this contribution, we propose a framework to represent such spatial inform...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...