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GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring Probabilistic Toponym Resolution for Geographical Information Retrieval
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...
COSIT
2001
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An agenda for the next generation gazetteer: geographic information contribution and retrieval
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Carsten Keßler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mohamed ...
TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Maya Carrillo, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Aureli...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...